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090    PN56.H55 |bP65 2002
100 1  Polsky, Jude, |d1955-
245 10 Laughing matters : |bthe Holocaust humour of Art Spiegelman, Tadeusz Borowski, and Aleksander Kulisiewicz / |cby Jude Polsky.
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2002.
300    vi, 112 pages
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
502    Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 2002.
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-108).
520     Using the term "humour" broadly-to include jokes, the comic, parody, satire, irony, and understatement-this thesis examines the Holocaust texts of three writers. After debating various taboos and issues of representation, I discuss Maus I and Maus II, the comic books of Art Spiegelman that created a new genre and new ways to represent the altered reality of the concentration camps. In Chapter Three I analyse a book of short stories by Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, and argue that the author's dark humour places readers into what Primo Levi calls the "gray zone," a place of collusion between perpetrator and victim. Chapter Four deals with excerpts of oral testimony in which survivors speak about their experiences with humour in the camps; I then analyse the songs of Aleksander Kulisiewicz, a much neglected Polish songwriter who caricatures and parodies the Nazi system of extermination.
530    Electronic version(s)  |bavailable internally at USHMM.
533    Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2004. |e22 cm.
590     Dissertations and Theses
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 20 January 2012.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
650  0 Humor in literature.
600 10 Spiegelman, Art |xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 Borowski, Tadeusz, |d1922-1951 |xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 Kulisiewicz, Aleksander Tytus, |d1918-1982 |xCriticism and interpretation.
856 41  |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=766545051&sid=34&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest
956 41  |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib97695/MQ76166.pdf  |z Hosted by USHMM.
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