THE REPRESENTATION OF NAZI VILLAINY IN AMERICAN COMICS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ONGOING STRUGGLE OF GERMAN TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE “POST” TRUMP ERA

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dc.contributor.advisorBaer, Hesteren_US
dc.contributor.authorFoster, Jordan Maxwellen_US
dc.contributor.departmentGermanic Language and Literatureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-22T05:41:58Z
dc.date.available2022-06-22T05:41:58Z
dc.date.issued2022en_US
dc.description.abstractOver the past 80 years, Nazis have been cast as the ultimate prototype for villainy in popular culture, especially in American comic books. The fetishization of Nazis in global popular culture has impeded the difficult tasks of coming to terms with the past and establishing a new transnational identity in Germany. However, recent publications, such as Freedom Fighters (2019) from DC Comics and Secret Empire (2017) from Marvel Comics demonstrate how manipulation, propaganda, fearmongering, and indoctrination powered the Nazi Party and continue to run rampant in modern-day fascist organizations. If mainstream comic books begin to consistently showcase these less sensational aspects of Nazism, they could highlight the subtle dangers of contemporary fascism, including neo-Nazism and far-right extremism, which have recently experienced a resurgence in mainstream politics all over the world. By doing so, mainstream comics could begin to emulate the sophisticated critique of works like Maus (1986) by Art Spiegelman.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/yvxn-jkby
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/29026
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledGerman literatureen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledModern literatureen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledComparative literatureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledComic booksen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFar-right extremismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGerman Transnational Identityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMausen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNazismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledneo-Nazismen_US
dc.titleTHE REPRESENTATION OF NAZI VILLAINY IN AMERICAN COMICS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ONGOING STRUGGLE OF GERMAN TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE “POST” TRUMP ERAen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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