#narrative studies

I would far rather these books go to someone who's going to use them for their own school work than to just throw them in a Little Free Library.

Message me and I will send you the book!

A break from my regularly scheduled programming (Yellowjackets) to ask for your opinion on something.

Welcome to Maus Haus!

This website was created by BA Communication I students of the University of the Philippines Cebu in compliance to the requirements of COMM 103 - Narrative Studies under the advisory of Marie Rose Arong, PhD.

What is "Maus Haus" for?

Maus Haus aims to properly relay the analysis of the graphic novel. On this site, the group will provide an analysis that will delve deeper into multiple areas of study surrounding the worldmaking of “Maus: A Survivor’s Tale Part 1: My Father Bleeds History”. 

The group will utilize Tumblr to showcase the multimodal analysis. It will cover the graphic novel’s historical significance, narrative discourse, graphic novel elements, focalization, and symbolism throughout the site.

What is "Maus: A Survivor’s Tale Part 1: My Father Bleeds History” about?

“Maus: A Survivor’s Tale Part 1: My Father Bleeds History” by Art Spiegelman. In order to discuss the important themes and elements of this multimodal narrative, the group will create a site to reveal the members’ analysis through different forms: written, visual, auditory, and a combination of the three.

Maus is a World War II story that simultaneously tells Art Spiegelman's conversation with his father, who recounts his experiences during the Hollucost as a Polish Jew. The story is partitioned into two parts. Part 1, entitled "My Father Bleeds History," deals specifically with the time before Vladek was captured and sent to Auschwitz; his early life, meeting and marrying his wife, Anja, and trying to survive while the Nazis are rounding up all other Jews. In the latter part, Vladek and Anja are captured and sent to separate camps at Auschwitz. Part 2, on the other hand, Vladek recounts his survival stories at a concentration camp, which was considered a site of Jewish persecution. (Maus by Art Spiegelman: Summary & Analysis, 2019).

According to Eddie Campbell (2007), he describes the graphic novel as “a comic-book narrative that is equivalent in form and dimensions to the prose novel,” while also adding that “others employ it to indicate a form that is more than a comic book in the scope of its ambition—indeed a new medium altogether”. A lot of people regard Maus as the arbitrator of such a formal definition because of how it portrays one of the most tragic events in human history, the Holocaust, in a way that mixes journalistic reportage and personal biography. It also delves into Spiegelman's strained relationship with his father, as well as his attempts to come to terms with his mother's suicide. Spiegelman's style of portraying nationalities as animals - for example, Jews as mice and Germans as cats - is a powerful and effective metaphor for racism.

In the notion of understanding this graphic novel, a thorough critical demonstration and critical analysis in the story-world is necessary. The historical preoccupation and other elements that explain the narration, focalization and spatiotemporality give us ideas to interpret the composition of the graphic elements used.

Website by Group 1 of COMM 103 - B: BA Communication I

Alfaro, Princess Rikah

Booc, Jazmine Nicole

Composo, Hazel Jane

Cuevas, Steven

References for the Site Content

Lanser (n.d.). Point of View as Ideology and Technique. P.250-264

Bal, Mieke. (2009). Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative. 3rd ed. Toronto: University of Toronto. Print. 

Genette (1980). Narrators. Retrieved June 8, https://www2.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/intranet/englishbasics/NarrativeSituation01.htm#oliver

Marquez, G. G. (n.d.). What is Narrative? 5 Narrative Types and Examples. Now Novel. Retrieved June 8, 2022, https://www.nownovel.com/blog/narrative-examples-strong-narration/ 

Rana, N. (n.d.). What is Narration (Point of View) in Literature, with Types & Examples. Pandora Post. Retrieved June 8, 2022, from https://www.pandorapost.com/2020/12/point-of-view-and-narration-in-a-story.html