Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Maus: A Survivor's Tale. My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

14 reviews

dcoco's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Any book about the Holocaust is going to be difficult but I sailed through this in one sitting. It’s broken up by the author recounting his father telling him this story and their current day of him collecting the information and the father’s current situation with his wife. The comic style and writing make it all the more fascinating. I would love to see this made into an animation movie as the story of his father is beyond fascinating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Genocide, and Xenophobia

About the Holocaust so will have the usual themes associated with this

amelody's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Violence, Xenophobia, War, Racial slurs, Racism, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Deportation, Death of parent, Suicide, Child death, Classism, Cursing, Death, Police brutality, Mental illness, and Grief

angelfireeast24's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Classism, War, Police brutality, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Hate crime, Grief, Gun violence, Deportation, Death of parent, Death, Violence, Cursing, Confinement, Child death, Bullying, Antisemitism, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Mental illness, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Mass/school shootings, Kidnapping, and Abandonment

has3000's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

4.5

It’s hard to imagine living near Germany around 1940.
Even today, with all the legislative persecution of minorities and LGBTQ people, as a straight, white man it’s hard to imagine that anything like Nazi Germany could truly come to pass.

And yet this book hits hard. This is a much lighter book than I imagine part two will be, but still it’s so heavy. Seeing this family go through the war, from disbelief to living in a cellar trying to avoid Auschwitz… it’s heartbreaking.

The art is simple, with different animal species representing different groups of people. And the story is split between the author talking to his father in the present day and showing us the things from the 40s that he is talking about.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Hate crime, Suicide, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Murder, Death, Violence, Religious bigotry, Racism, Genocide, and Antisemitism

chaos_animates's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Death, Xenophobia, Murder, War, Hate crime, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Deportation, and Death of parent

flyingryndeer's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Suicide, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Deportation, Death of parent, War, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, Hate crime, Confinement, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Racism, Police brutality, and Antisemitism

twistykris's review

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Antisemitism, Genocide, Death, Xenophobia, Violence, Confinement, and Torture

Moderate: Suicide, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Child death

archaicrobin's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Art Speigelman illustrates the conversations he has with his father about his experiences during WWII in Poland. This graphic novel doesn’t shy away from the horror that Speigelman’s family endured, and is at times a hard read but a very necessary one. Speigelman includes his father’s story along with scenes in present day detailing how these conversations took place, and the result is a captivating tale that I can’t wait to continue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Confinement, Violence, Antisemitism, Child death, Hate crime, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Deportation, Genocide, Grief, Racism, Religious bigotry, War, and Xenophobia

shoohoob's review

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

5.0

Required reading for me as a granddaughter of a holocaust survivor. This was really really tough to read, but I’m glad I did. 

So much of Art and his father’s relationship reminds me of mine with my mom. Maybe it’s the intergenerational trauma. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Antisemitism, Violence, War, Xenophobia, Deportation, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

rtaire's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

Support banned books!

I definitely recommend most everyone read this book (and the second volume). It's a beautifully nuanced memoir of a holocaust survivor and the complicated relationship between him and his son, the comic artist writing/drawing the book. Glad I read the book now when I am struggling with all the grey space of my own relationship between myself and my mother. Makes me feel more at ease about the lack of clear distinctions of "morally good" and "bad", the messy in-between of reality.

The art style really helped to put some distance between me and the extremely difficult subject matter of the Holocaust, which allowed me to keep reading when I might have otherwise needed to stop to preserve my mental health. Still, some of the images are truly haunting and it helps to be prepared to know that these books cover the worst of what humanity is capable of. I still think it is very worth it to remember these atrocities, especially at a time when people are trying to erase them and ban important books like this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Alcohol, Genocide, War, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Murder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Gun violence, Death of parent, Violence, and Sexism