Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Rethinking History; the Journal of Theory and Practice
Angaben zur Quelle:
6,3 (2002) 319-330
Keywords:
Barr, Donna.
;
Moore, Alan,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Abstract:
Discusses Donna Barr's "Desert Peach" and Alan Moore's "Miracleman" comics. In the former, a German soldier is forced to act as a guard at a Nazi death camp; it is implied that he is a "good German." Barr's work attributes Nazi behavior to madness and, hence, it is inexplicable. Moore's work, which reflects the Holocaust implicitly, shows the abuse of power, associating genocide with modernity, particularly science, and, like Zygmunt Bauman, linking it to totalitarianism. also discusses Art Spiegelman's "Maus, " which is paralleled to Goldhagen's theory that all of the Germans wanted the Jews murdered.
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