À sombra de Maus: figurações do trauma em Art Spiegelman

Abstract

The subject of this dissertation is two works by the author Art Spiegelman, Maus a Survivor’s Tale (1986) and In the Shadow of No towers (2004). Art Spiegelman is the son of Holocaust survivors and his work Maus tells the story of his father Vladek. The work has biographical and autobiographical characteristics, as Spiegelman recounts the process of collecting interviews with his father, stitching together past and present. In the second work, In the Shadow of No Towers, Spiegelman recounts his perspective on the attack on the Twin Towers, considering that he and his family were very close and visual witnesses to the event. My aim is to analyze the graphic construction of the works, thinking about Spiegelman's condition as an author and how he relates to / represents trauma in the different works.