Maus (English, State U. of New York at Potsdam) offers a comparative analysis of Cold War satirical writing from the United States and Russia. Exploring writings by Thomas Pynchon, Robert
Coover, John Barth, Walker Percy, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Vasily Aksyonov, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Alexander Zinoviev, Vladimir Voinovich, Fazil Iskander, and Sasha Sokolov, Maus places each
national strand within its own unique historical, political, and cultural context, but nevertheless finds some striking thematic commonalities between the American and Soviet productions,
including nuclear anxiety, distrust of militarization, and criticism of the mobilizing construction of threat from the Cold War enemy. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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