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Links
(back to top) [links checked Jan. 4, 2010]
- Quotations and Resources
about Maus
- Chapter
summaries, questions, cast of characters and other
resources (e.g. on graphic novels), by the Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Free Library project (2005)
- Free Maus
"Cliff notes" at GradeSaver.com--character
sketches, chapter by chapter summaries, glossary, quizzes, etc.
- Maus
site with study questions, by Eveyln Burg at LaGuardia
Community College in 2005, developed to accompany a lecture by Spiegelman.
- How do you think Vladek and Anja survive Auschwitz?
- Why do you think Anja kills herself?
- Explain what you believe will happen to Vladek
and Mala’s marriage?
- What will happen with Vladek and Art’s
relationship? Why?
- Why did Spiegelman write this book? Why did
he call it Maus?
- Why did Spiegelman portray his father’s
story as a comic strip?
- Maus portrays the Holocaust or a genocide. A
genocide is a d eliberate and systematic destruction of a racial,
political, or cultural group . Do you know of any recent genocides?
How are these genocides similar to the Holocaust? How are they
different?
- What would you have done if you were a Jew living
in Poland during the Second World War? What would you have done
if you were a Pole? A German? Why?
- How did people survive in Poland during the
Second World War? How do you think these survivors felt after
the war? Why?
- In Maus, Art interviews Vladek about the Holocaust.
How reliable do you think Vladek’s memory is? Why?
- What happens to people who live under a terror
regime for a long period of time? Should people adapt to a terror
regime? Explain.
- Chapter
by chapter and general study questions, for
Cary Henson's Honors Composition Seminar at the University of Wisconsin,
Osh Kosh, Sept. 2007 (Jan. 2010: web archive version)
- Teacher's
Guide and Discussion Questions from Random House publisher
- 5
study questions by Eric Goldstein at Michigan State, for his
1999 "Focus on American Jewish Culture" course
- Geri Speace, "Maus,"
entry in St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture. Jan. 29,
2002, at FindArticles.com.
- 2
quotations about Maus, one from author Art Spiegelman,
published in Oral History Journal in 1987, the other from
scholar Stephan Feinstein in Witness and Legacy (1996)
(with references). [most links on the page don't work]
- Articles and Lectures
about Maus
- Joshua Brown, "Of Mice
and Memory," Oral History Review, Spring 1988.
(This seminal examination of vol. 1 is archived here--vol.
2 was published 5 years after this article was published.)
- Michael E. Staub, "The
Shoah goes on and on: Remembrance and representation in Art
Spiegelman's 'Maus'" Melus, Fall 1995. (12 web pages:
9=notes, 10+11=bib.)
- "Art
Spiegelman's MAUS: Working-Through The Trauma of the Holocaust,"
by Robert Leventhal (University of Virginia Dept. of German, 1995),
part of his hypermedia sourcebook [March 2006 version courtesy of
the web archive]
- "A
Generation Removed? A look at the relationship between Vladek
and Art Spiegelman," a somewhat chaotic & incomplete hypertext
essay by McGowen at Georgetown University
- Ian Johnston's 2001 lecture "On
Spiegelman's Maus I and II ," for his in Liberal Studies
112 at Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada.
- Hillary Chute, "Literal
Forms: Narrative Structures in Maus," Indy
Magazine, Winter 2005. Has detailed interpretations of 8 pages
from Maus. [1/10: web archive version]
- Martha Kuhlman, "Marianne
Hirsch on Maus," Indy Magazine, Winter 2005 [1/10:
web archive version]
- Interviews and Biographies
of Art Spiegelman
- Wikipedia
Art Spiegelman article; and Wikipedia
entry for Maus
- Comiclopedia
biography of Spiegelman (with pictures from his other comics)
- Don Swain, Interview
with Art Spiegelman, WiredForBooks.com, 1991 (47 mins.) [1/10:
web archive version--use the "listen" link, not the MP3
link]
- Chris Goffard, "The
Man Behind MAUS: Art Spiegelman in his own Words," The
Fish Rap Live! (1992 interview)
- Harvey Blume, "Art
Spiegelman: Lips," Boston Book Review, 1995 interview,
The title comes from Spiegelman's controversial 1993 Valentine's
Day New Yorker cover showing a Hasidic Jew and a Black
Woman.
- Art Spiegelman, "Those
Dirty Little Comics: The introduction to 'Tijuana Bibles: Art
and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930s-1950s'," salon.com,
Aug. 19, 1997. (4 web pages). About the history of pornographic
comics.
- Art Spiegelman, "Getting
in Touch with My Inner Racist,"Mother Jones, Sept.
1997. About his own racism.
- Susan Stamberg, Interview
with Art Spiegelman, NPR Morning Edition, January 26, 2004.
Click on "listen." Includes as "web extra" audio
of Vladek describing the death of Art's Aunt Tosha, his brother
Richieu, and his cousins.
- Comic Autobiography: Art Spiegelman, "Portrait
of the Artist as a Young %@?*!" Virginia Quarterly
Review, Fall 2005- (4 Installments; 2 not available; 3
shows origins of Maus in 1971; excerpt of 4 also available--link
at bottom of page)
- Art Director's Club, 2006
illustrated biography
- Pages with more resources
(most links
are included above already)
- 2002
linkography on Maus by Holly Schneider.
Unfortunately, many links are dead. Includes a brief bibliography.
[1/10: web archive version]
- Reviews
- Review
of the Maus CD-Rom by Roy Rosenzweig, included in his
1995 article "So, What's Next for Clio?: CD-ROM and Historians,"
originally published in The Journal of American History
81, 4 (March 1995): 1621-1640.
- Short
review of Maus by Jill Levine, one of the founders
of the UK site TheBookBag, 2007 [1/10: web archive version]
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