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“Holocaust laughter?” explores why comedy is a better and more active media through which to explore tragedies ‘..the comic spirit proceeds in an antimimetic mode that mocks what is, that deflates or even cancels authority of its object.’

prev essay. to remember genocide without abusing its memory, to confront jewish violence while acknowledging the ever present filter of self-hatred - these are the difficult intellectual tasks which mark the minefield of identity explored in Maus through the “lowbrow” medium of comics.

“We were talking jewish” talked in depth about language and the changing identity of jewishness, touched on israel and need for current representation.’All discourse that partakes of the innocence/redemption dialectic ultimately serves as a legitimating apparatus for j chauvinism and for the j state since within its terms we cannot acknowledge j as themselves victimisers either as individual or collective

paliek sliktāk.

es šo grāmatu iešņaukšu iekšā

man tiešām nepatīk vīrieši. tas cik ļoti Godwin kļūdījās ir nepiedodami

the idiot | I believe the thought came to me/ when i was abt 11yo:/ I’ll become an idiot./ /I had noticed some in the neighbourhood,/ those who the people called/ “idiots”.

we ain’t got no money, honey, but we got rain 180-288 (ļoti patika, izjusts)
oh, I was a ladies man! 302-305
the area of pause 331 (ļoti patika)
it’s a shame 336
hangover .. drunks are never forgiven./ /but drunks will forgive themselves/ because they need to drink/ again. ..
they are everywhere 342-344

we ain’t got no money, honey, but we got rain (280)

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