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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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| 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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