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Bezig met laden... In the Shadow of No Towers (origineel 2004; editie 2004)door Art Spiegelman
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![]() Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. So supremely my kind of book. In The Shadow of No Towers is one of the best explorations of Post-9/11 America I've ever seen, partially because it communicates via pop culture, something I love. Clearly, after his home city was attacked, Art Spiegelman (the master artist behind Maus) buried himself in familiar media. As a result, this graphic novel is coated in references to comics, including his own, and popular cultural symbols in general. The biggest downside is that I found the constant art style changes to be a bit exhausting after 20 or so pages. The style is incredibly unpredictable, by choice, and not all of the choices felt as intentional as the others. It's aged fairly well, with a lot of the concerns raised being even more relevant today. However, it also makes the book seem a bit less clever than it probably was at the time. I doubt railing against George W Bush was as commonplace back then, especially in mainstream literature. Nowhere near the level of importance as Maus, but the mastery is still there. It's a gigantic book and so expensive, so try and rent or just take a peek at it. It's really worth it. Art Spielgelman was living in New York near the twin towers on Setember 11 2001. His daughter was attending school right next to them when they fell. This small collection of double-paged full-colour comics documents Spielgelman's response to the shock of the event, and to political events in the USA subsequent to it. It provides some insights into the feelings of New Yorkers at the time. Spiegelman himself writes that he was shocked back into writing comics and smoking, The attack filled him with fear and paranoia. He was angered by the politics of terrorism. He also realised that he loved his city and wouldn't leave it. I found this to be an interesting but strange book, each double spread physically huge but the book itself not long enough for the topic. Fascinating book - deals with another trauma, after MAUS which is concerned with World War II, this time 9/11 is the central theme. Spiegelman makes interesting connections to his earlier work and other literary works (for example, he talks about the albatross hanging on his neck - this is a reference to Coleridge's Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, I believe). Absolutely a must-read if you're into this sort of books! geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were both highly personal and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus, is a masterful and moving account of the events and aftermath of that tragic day. Spiegelman and his family bore witness to the attacks in their lower Manhattan neighborhood: his teenage daughter had started school directly below the towers days earlier, and they had lived in the area for years. But the horrors they survived that morning were only the beginning for Spiegelman, as his anguish was quickly displaced by fury at the U.S. government, which shamelessly co-opted the events for its own preconceived agenda. He responded in the way he knows best. In an oversized, two-page-spread format that echoes the scale of the earliest newspaper comics (which Spiegelman says brought him solace after the attacks), he relates his experience of the national tragedy in drawings and text that convey-with his singular artistry and his characteristic provocation, outrage, and wit-the unfathomable enormity of the event itself, the obvious and insidious effects it had on his life, and the extraordinary, often hidden changes that have been enacted in the name of post-9/11 national security and that have begun to undermine the very foundation of American democracy. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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![]() GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)741.5973The arts Graphic arts and decorative arts Drawing & drawings Cartoons, Caricatures, Comics Collections North American United States (General)LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:![]()
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Highly recommended for lovers of graphic novels, historians, and democrats--or anyone disheartened by America's sharp ethical decline since the Bush administration took office. (