{"product_id":"maus-now-selected-writing-hardcover","title":"Maus Now: Selected Writing - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHillary Chute\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman's \u003ci\u003eMaus\u003c\/i\u003e (\"the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eMaus Now\u003c\/i\u003e includes work from twenty-one leading critics, authors, and academics--including Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and Adam Gopnik--on the radical achievement and innovation of \u003ci\u003eMaus, \u003c\/i\u003e more than forty years since the original publication of \"the first masterpiece in comic book history\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003ci\u003eMaus\u003c\/i\u003e shaped 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, \u003ci\u003eMaus\u003c\/i\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\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaus Now: Selected Writing\u003c\/i\u003e collects responses to Spiegelman's monumental work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status. The writers approach \u003ci\u003eMaus\u003c\/i\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 \u003ci\u003eMaus.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaus \u003c\/i\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHILLARY CHUTE\u003c\/b\u003e is an American literary scholar and an expert on comics and graphic narratives. She is Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University and the author or editor of seven titles on comics, including, most recently, her book, \u003ci\u003eWhy Comics? From Underground to Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a comics and graphic novels columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.7 x 9.1 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766755754272,"sku":"9780593315774","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6e88e4afccd4d3241f9fa3a918a385ed.webp?v=1780298247","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/maus-now-selected-writing-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}