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i12bent: Throughout Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Jews are represented as mice, while non-Jewish Germans are represented as cats. All characters of a single “nationality” are drawn virtually identically, with only their clothing or other details to help distinguish between them. In making people of a single nationality look “all alike,” Spiegelman showed the absurdity of dividing people by these lines: “These metaphors… are meant to self-destruct in my book — and I think they do self-destruct.” Above - a typical Maus illustration - used as endpapers…

i12bent:

Throughout Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Jews are represented as mice, while non-Jewish Germans are represented as cats.

All characters of a single “nationality” are drawn virtually identically, with only their clothing or other details to help distinguish between them. In making people of a single nationality look “all alike,” Spiegelman showed the absurdity of dividing people by these lines: “These metaphors… are meant to self-destruct in my book — and I think they do self-destruct.”

Above - a typical Maus illustration - used as endpapers…

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