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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.

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I. 글을 시작하며: 아우슈비츠와 재현의 문제
 II. 아우슈비츠의 재현과 윤리 논쟁
 III. 『쥐』에 나타난 쥐머리와 얼굴의 윤리와 정치
 IV. 회색지대와 생명정치의 재현
 V. 애도와 사진 속 얼굴의 윤리
 VI. 결론: 『쥐』의 교육적 가능성
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• 김대중 [ Kim, Dae Joong | 강원대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810