Assignment task: Maus (to p. 234)
Excerpt on Marianne Hirsch's "Post-Memory" ( cover pages 106 and 107 for this response)
Reflect on how Marianne Hirsch's concept of post-memory can help us better understand this section of the text. What is post-memory and how does it make us better understand how the Holocaust affects subsequent generations? Analyze how Spiegelman engages with his own experience of post-memory. How did he exhibit symptoms of post memory as a child? Which specific parts of his parents' experience in the Holocaust affects him and why? What kind of insight does Spiegelman's experience give us on postmemory and the lasting affects of the Holocaust on subsequent generations?