Comic books, graphic novels and the Holocaust. Beyond MausAneta Stpień
(2019)Review of: Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust: Beyond Maus , Ewa Stańczyk (ed.) (2019) Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 142 pp., ISBN 978-1-13859-864-5, h/bk, 96.00, p/bk, 29.59doi:10.1386/stic_00040_5Mihaela Precup...
literature. Some of her books are class novels in schools. She is well known for writing about difficult topics and gearing them toward a younger audience. She is the author ofNumber the Stars,which is about the Holocaust. She also wroteThe Giver,which is about a utopian, turned dystopian,...
“World War II seems to be of perennial interest to readers, but events in Europe—whether it’s important battles or the Holocaust—seem to take precedence. Much less well covered is the war in Asia, including its aftermath. While many of us know about the Nuremberg trials, fewer know mu...
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camp. Westheimer remained with her mother and grandmother but was soon sent toSwitzerland, where she lived in an orphanage for Jewish refugee children. She remained there for the rest of the war and never saw her family again. Later, she learned her parents had been killed in theHolocaust. ...
The best books for teens include some of thegreatest novels ever written, along with several contemporary books that are extremely popular. Any list on the best books for teenagers should include timeless classics likeTo Kill a MockingbirdandThe Catcher in the Rye.Just becuase high school students...
Alice Walker became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel The Color Purple (1982). One of the most important literary figures of second-wave feminism, Walker’s novels, short stories, and poems are celebrat
Herman Melville’s daunting, massive, intimidating magnum opus “Moby Dick” has a perhaps undeserved reputation of being hard to read and harder to get through (unlike Dumas’s unabridged “Three Musketeers” where the opposite is true). Like many other “great” novels, it is perhaps more ...
The novel tells the story of Spiegelman’s father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor, and his experiences during World War II and the Holocaust. The novel is notable for its use of anthropomorphic animals to represent different races and nationalities, with Jews depicted as mice, Germans as cats, ...