pISSN: 1598-3293
영어영문학연구, Vol.58 no.3 (2016)
pp.19~46
『쥐』에 나타난 홀로코스트 재현의 윤리와 교육적 의의 연구
Analyzing Art Spiegelman’s groundbreaking graphic novel, MAUS in which the author represents the story of his father, Vladek, a Auschwitz survivor, this paper aims to delve into how literary representation works in MAUS in terms of ethics, politics, and aesthetics. As theoretical scaffoldings, the paper utilizes Jacques Ranciere’s theory of aesthetics-politics, Scott McCloud’s in-depth theoretical explanation of comics as a genre, Gilles Deleuze’s politics of faciality, and Giorgio Agamben’s philosophical analysis of testimony as lacuna and ethico-ontological deconstruction of bio-politics in Auschwitz. The paper argues that representation of historical atrocity through comics can attain its legitimacy through aesthetic deconstruction of representational hierarchy and philosophical reflection on the universal fatality of humanity. Later, the paper also proposes that ethical power of MAUS lies in readers’ active participation through imagination empowered by visualization of communication between the Auschwitz survivor, Vladek, and his son, Artie. This communication results in eliciting the universal accountability and responsibility of every human being for death camp of Auschwitz.
『쥐』,아우슈비츠,아트 슈피겔만,자끄 랑시에르,존재윤리 교육