{"id":210,"date":"2005-12-05T18:12:57","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T23:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/2005\/12\/05\/use-of-voice-in-spiegelmans-frames\/"},"modified":"2005-12-05T18:12:57","modified_gmt":"2005-12-05T23:12:57","slug":"use-of-voice-in-spiegelmans-frames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/2005\/12\/05\/use-of-voice-in-spiegelmans-frames\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of voice in Spiegelman’s frames"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Art Spiegelman’s graphic narrative about 9\/11\/01, the alternating first and third person voices more completely conveyed his range of reactions and emotions to his experiences that day.  For example, on p. 5-6, the voice in the left column is in the third person, a device that seemed to communicate the tremendous coping involved with being a survivor on that day.  Spiegelman places his character in the position of those who fell from the towers, and the third person voice may indicate his personal struggle with discussing the experience; thus, “I” becomes “he” and the story becomes easier for the character to recount.   <\/span><\/p>\n

            Whether or not Spiegelman intended for his story to be narcissistic, his graphic frames, or style of telling of it, slows down the story’s movement, allows one to analyze the message without the special effects and editing that one must counter with film, and emotionally transports reader\/viewer to consider how a New Yorker processed the destruction, death, and misinformation accompanying the fall of the towers.  His inclusion of his relationship with a homeless New Yorker juxtaposed to his falling from the tower (the anti-Semitic Russian woman), written in the first person, shows a contrast between his willingness to confront day-to-day hatred (I dare say the normal hatred and intolerance of the everday) and his despair (as shown in the left column and written in a distanced third person voice) at how to make sense of the hatred that was behind the fall of the towers and the hatred that formed among Americans in reaction to it.  When the Russian woman reveals her knowledge of English and a boldness, born in her in the aftermath of 9\/11, to assault him with it, Spiegelman voices his frustration.  A major source of frustration for him in these frames seemed not only to stem from his disappointment with how political parties sold out on the fall of the towers, but what overwhelms the pages is his knowing that there may be no one or worse yet, there are many sources behind the destruction and fall of the towers that day.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Art Spiegelman’s graphic narrative about 9\/11\/01, the alternating first and third person voices more completely conveyed his range of reactions and emotions to his experiences that day.  For example, on p. 5-6, the voice in the left column is in the third person, a device that seemed to communicate the tremendous coping involved with … Continue reading Use of voice in Spiegelman’s frames<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}