Las representaciones historiográficas postmodernas: Maus y la novela gráfica sobre el Holocausto

Abstract

This article examines the way in which the graphic novel Maus has represented the multiple dimensions and problems we encounter when representing a limit-event such as the Holocaust. To this purpose, some previous words on the possibilities of the comic to represent the past are needed. Then, we analyze the main resources of Art Spiegelman’s work to represent the Shoah, by ending with some final reflections on the ability of the so-called postmodern historiographic experiments to narrate the suffering and experiences lived by the victims and their legatees, in relation to phenomena such as the Final Solution.