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Maus, often published as Maus: A Survivor's Tale, is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodern techniques and represents Jews as mice, Germans as cats and Poles as pigs. Critics…
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The extracted context around Maus shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Maus → Academics, According, Approaches, Arie Kaplan, Art Spiegelman's, Comics, Considering Maus, Deborah Geis, Dominick LaCapra, Family Frames, Family Pictures, Few, Harvey, Harvey Pekar, Hillel Halkin, Holocaust, In, Joshua Brown's, Linda Hutcheon, Literary Another extracted example is Maus → African National Congress's, Arabic, Bikont's, By, Commonwealth, December, Demonstrators, Franco-Belgian, French, Gazeta Wyborcza, Gazeta's, German, Germany, In, Japanese, Long-standing, Maus's, Nazi, Now, Penguin Books. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 294 structured relationships around Maus. Examples in this analysis include Maus → Creator → Art Spiegelman and Maus → Date → 1991. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maus | Creator | Art Spiegelman | 1.00 | infobox |
| Maus | Date | 1991 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Maus | Date of publication | 1980–1991 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Maus | Issues | Vol. 1 No. 2 – Vol. 2 No. 3 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Maus | Page count | 296 pages | 1.00 | infobox |
| Maus | Published in | Raw | 1.00 | infobox |
| Maus | Publisher | Pantheon Books | 1.00 | infobox |
| Passionate Journey | instance of | who had made early wordless novels in woodcuts | 0.80 | text |
| Umberto Eco | instance of | Praise for the book also came from contemporaries such as Jules Feiffer and literary writers | 0.80 | text |
| Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis | instance of | Maus is cited as a primary influence on graphic novels | 0.80 | text |
| Alison Bechdel's Fun Home.In 2022 | instance of | Maus is cited as a primary influence on graphic novels | 0.80 | text |
| the board of trustees for McMinn County Schools in east Tennessee voted unanimously to remove Maus from the curriculum over concerns including profanity | instance of | Maus is cited as a primary influence on graphic novels | 0.80 | text |
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Source: Wikipedia — Maus · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout