{"product_id":"maus-now-hillary-chute-9780593315774","title":"Maus Now: Selected Writing","description":"\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 \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hillary Chute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593315774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593315774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pantheon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2022 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2022","brand":"Hillary Chute","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43945464758527,"sku":"9780593315774","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7e9d1b9f-997b-42e2-bb2f-e72b926e3374.jpg?v=1681508444","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/maus-now-hillary-chute-9780593315774","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}