They didn't want you to know the pa...

They didn't want you to know the past. They were hoping in this way

you could escape it.

--Carolyn Forche, "The Notebook of Uprising"

The central question at issue of identity in Art Spiegelman's Maus: A Survivor's Tale is the author's ne to write himself into a family from whose founding trauma he was absent. We can contemplate to Maus's multitiered metanarrative fabric for evidence of the productive, notwithstanding that not always cooperative, interaction taking place between father and son that allows for a relationship in which Art Spiegelman creates an identity for himself with prize ...