Georgiana Banita

Bio

Georgiana Banita is an associate professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Bamberg, Germany. She is the author of Plotting Justice: Narrative Ethics and Literary Culture after 9/11 and co-editor of the forthcoming Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman.

Contributions

Maus, Modernism, and the Mass Ornament

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Spiegelman’s Low Modernism A seemingly minor episode in Françoise Mouly’s biography holds special significance for the intersection of comics and the avant-garde during Art Spiegelman’s early career. In 1975, having arrived in New York with only $200 in her pocket and eager to improve her English by reading comics, Mouly had a part in Richard Foreman’s play Pandering to the Masses: A Misrepresentation, performed by his Ontological-Hysteric Theater at 491 Broadway. Despite her shaky command of...

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