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31 lug 2019 · Released from 2002 to 2004, In the Shadow of No Towers is a series of comic strips by American cartoonist, Art Spiegelman, based entirely around his reaction to the September 11th attacks. Originally serialized in the German paper Die Zeit, the strips were collected into an oversized board book in 2004 by Viking Adult.
In the Shadow of No Towers is a 2004 work of comics by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman. It is about Spiegelman's reaction to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.
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•Art Spiegelman, the protagonist, is the author and illustrator ofthe work. He is a chain-smoker and conspiracy theorist whose paranoia is oftenjustified and heightened by his obsession with the news. In a reference to hisPulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus: A Survivor’s Tale(1986),which chronicles his father’s survival of the Holocaust, Spie...
With the exception of the haunting black-on-black book cover featuring theafterimage of the towers, almost every part of every panel is filled withcolor. The book’s central image is one created from Spiegelman’s memory: “theimage of the looming north tower’s glowing bones just before it vaporized.” Inseveral instances, the glowing orange of the tow...
In the Shadow of No Towers focuses on a dreaded anticipation, or asSpiegelman puts it, “waiting for the other shoe to drop.” The fear and paranoiathat the author expresses is not fabricated but is a very real part of histrauma following 9/11. This anxiety is the result of familial crisis and thetraumatic memory that is inextricably linked to it. Ju...
In a narrative fashion similar to that of his groundbreaking workMaus, Spiegelman again constructs a family’s firsthand account of epicacts of terrorism and the effects of living in and coping with the aftermath.Spiegelman must continually relive the trauma of 9/11 in order to capture therealism of that day and translate it onto the comic book page...
McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art(1994).Satrapi, Marjane. The Complete Persepolis(2006).Yang, Gene Luen. American Born Chinese(2006).Chute, Hillary. “‘The Shadow of a Past Time’: History and GraphicRepresentation in Maus.” Twentieth Century Literature52, no.2 (Summer, 2006): 199-230.Hirsch, Marianne. “Editor’s Column: Collateral Damage.” PLA119,no. 5 (October, 2004): 1209-1215.Orbán, Katalin. “Trauma and Visuality: Art Spiegelman’s Maus andIn the Shadow of No Towers.” Representations97 (Winter,2007): 57-89.In the Shadow of No Towers is written and illustrated by Art Spiegelman, author of the often-banned and deeply essential Maus. Published in 2004, this is his processing of the trauma from three years prior that is truly burned into his memory.
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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 neighbor
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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.
10 set 2004 · Spiegelman freely admits that the psychic terrors of 9/11 corresponded to a deep-seated "self-inflicted" trauma, a fervent belief that Armageddon - both the religious conflict and the Bruce Willis...
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