{"product_id":"maus-now-selected-writing","title":"Maus Now: Selected Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003eChute, Hillary (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman is one of our most influential contemporary artists; it’s hard to overstate his effect on postwar American culture. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMaus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eshaped the fields of literature, history, and art, and has enlivened our collective sense of possibilities for expression. A timeless work in more ways than one, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMaus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has also often been at the center of debates, as its recent ban by the McMinn County, Tennessee, school board from the district’s English language-arts curriculum demonstrates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaus Now: Selected Writing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e collects responses to Spiegelman’s monumental work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status. The writers approach \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMaus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions, inspired by the material’s complexity across four decades, from 1985 to 2018. The book is organized into three loosely chronological sections— “Contexts,” “Problems of Representation,” and “Legacy”—and offers for the first time translations of important French, Hebrew, and German essays on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaus\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaus \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis revelatory and generative in profound and long-lasting ways. With this collection, American literary scholar Hillary Chute, an expert on comics and graphic narratives, assembles the world’s best writing on this classic work of graphic testimony.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303456481314,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/9780593315774.jpg?v=1707500585","url":"https:\/\/vaholocaust.myshopify.com\/products\/maus-now-selected-writing","provider":"Virginia Holocaust Museum Shop \u0026 Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}