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This 5 page paper discusses Joe Sacco’s comic book “Palestine” with regard to whether or not it is a suitable medium for the subject it portrays. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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there is no reason not to treat serious subjects with humor (in fact it may be one way to get at the truth of the situation), it still raises eyebrows
when something as serious as the Israeli/Palestinian conflict finds its way into the comics. There is a feeling that such important matters need to be treated more seriously, perhaps with
scholarly treatises and in-depth research. But there is a well-known precedent for Palestine; its Art Spiegelmans MAUS, a graphic novel about the Holocaust. MAUS used a "traditionally low genre
-- the comic strip or book --for serious, grave material. It is a conscious, intentional inversion of a norm, a hierarchy, a cultural order" (Leventhal, 1995). It not only tells
the tale of a Holocaust survivor in graphic form, it "revamps" the idea of what is appropriate subject matter for a comic (Leventhal, 1995). In MAUS, Spiegelman reduces people to
animals: the Nazis are cats, the Jews are mice, the Poles are pigs and there are other national stereotypes as well (Leventhal, 1995). Reducing people to types in this way
"offers a conscious, intentional miniaturization and reduction" that points up not only the way in which the Nazis operated (by similarly reducing people to types and devaluing them) but it
also shows the inadequacy of the various responses to the Holocaust; i.e., they were also miniaturized and reduced in effectiveness (Leventhal, 1995). Joe Saccos Palestine is in the same vein
as MAUS; its a familiar subject presented in an unfamiliar way, perhaps with the hope that this will force those concerned with the issue to find a new approach. Sacco
gave a lecture in which he discussed his work and explained some of his concepts, accompanying his talk with slides of drawings from the book. He begins by explaining that
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