autoblography

Art Spiegelman’s Maus does exceptional work in recovering James Young’s “post-memory,” the experience that reflects “back on memory, revealing it as equally constructed, equally mediated by the processes of narration and imagination” (Young 669). Art follows his “media-conscious generation” in instead “of attempting to portray the events of the Holocaust” he draws “about the event of its transmission” (670). If I have any critique of Young’s point, it is that he does not fully express how the cartoon nature of Maus so heavily contributes to this new historiography that “integrates…read more

For today’s blog, I’d like to revisit the discussion my group began regarding the portrait of Tiffany Drew (45-6) from Forsaken. I’d like to give it a closer reading to illustrate how its organization reinforces marginalizing discourse like those identified by Jiwani and Young in “Missing and Murdered Women: Reproducing Marginality in News Discourse.” Specifically, I’d like to point out the compartmentalization of the three paragraphs. Paragraph one details how Tiffany “grew up in Port Alberni and Nanaimo” and contains the imagery of an innocent childhood: she “loved to swim…read more