MAUS: GRAFİK ROMAN VE EDEBİYAT

Year 2015, Volume: 55 Issue: 2, 251 - 270, 01.01.2015

Şenol Bezci

Abstract

Çizgi roman Amerikan Kültürü’nde başlangıcından bu güne hep popüler bir sanat dalı olmuştur. Ancak muhafazakâr baskılar yüzünden 1950’lerden 1970’lere kadar düşüşe geçmiş ve grafik romanın yaygınlaşmasıyla yeniden popülerlik kazanmıştır. Grafik roman edebiyatla işbirliği yaparak çizgi romanı türünü hem canlandırmış hem de ona saygınlık kazandırmıştır. Grafik romanın başat yapıtlarından olan Maus bu gelişimde önemli bir paya sahiptir. Eserin yazarı ve çizeri Art Spiegelman, İkinci Dünya Savaşı’nı yaşamış ve Auschwitz’den sağ kurtulmayı başaran bir Yahudi olan babasının öyküsünü anlatırken roman geleneğinden de faydalandığı için, Maus grafik romanın edebiyatla yaptığı işbirliğinin en açık örneklerindendir.

Keywords

Amerikan Edebiyatı, Kültürel Çalışmalar, Popüler Kültür, Çizgi Roman, Çizgi Roman Tarihi, Grafik Roman, Roman, Edebi Söylem

Maus: Graphic Novel And Literature

Abstract

Comics has always been a popular form of art in American Culture. However, it experienced a decline due to conservative oppressions of the conservative parts of the society. Comics gained its popularity back with the birth of graphic novel. Graphic novel both revived and provided comics with respectability by collaborating with fiction. Maus, a prominent work of graphic novel, has an important role in this development. Because its creator Art Spiegelman benefits from the tradition of fiction while recounting the story of his father who survives not only through the World War II but also Auschwitz, Maus is a very explicit example of the collaboration between graphic novel and literature.

Keywords

American Literature, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, Comics, History of Comics, Graphic Novel, Fiction, Literary Discourse

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