Research Essay

The Proposal

Paper #3 Proposal

Name: Radha Dobaria

Thesis: While Art Spiegelman portrays a moment of joy in Vladek’s life after the war and the Holocaust, Vladek suffered from lingering effects such as survivor’s guilt, the loss of familial relations, and the pain of memory. By emphasizing scenes that are representative of Vladek’s hardships in life after he got married, Spiegelman elicits an empathetic response from his audience while providing variation in emotion by the juxtaposition of light and dark backgrounds in alternating panels.

Source #1 title and author: History and Memory in a Dialogic of “Performative Memorialization” in Art Spiegelman’s “Maus: A Survivor’s Tale”

by: Lisa A. Costello

Source #2 title and author: Time Flies: Remnants of Auschwitz in Art Spiegelman’s Maus

by: Hailey J. Austin

Source #3 title and author: “Happy , Happy Ever After” : The Transformation of Trauma Between The Generations in Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s Tale

by: Victoria A. Elmwood