. In Maus the reader must engage with blended genres and narration styles, the author’s memory, trauma and self-consciousness/self-referentiality, as well as fluid temporality.

Learning Goal: I’m working on a writing question and need guidance to help me learn.

Write a 2-3 page essay on one of the following topics:

1. In Maus the reader must engage with blended genres and narration styles, the author’s

memory, trauma and self-consciousness/self-referentiality, as well as fluid temporality.

Please write about the conventions of the genre(s) being used in Maus. How do they

balance the concerns of fact and fiction, or of history and biography? How do they reconcile

a need to convey an emotional truth with the demands of factual accuracy?

2. Black Panther imagines an alternative reality in which the world’s most technologically

advanced nation is the never-colonized African nation of Wakanda. In its representation

of a Black American experience, Black Panther can thus go beyond the mainstream

liberal narrative about race relations in America: Black Panther is not about Black people

as a “social problem,” or about white guilt repaired by Black forgiveness, understanding,

and assimilation.

Write an essay about how Christopher Priest’s Black Panther represents

Blackness differently and how it might be significant to a discussion about race and

racism in America. You may want to consider, for example, the use of speculative fiction,

narrative strategies, language, visual style, irony, etc., and how the unique possibilities of

the superhero genre come into play.

Your paper should include an introduction, a thesis statement, a few well-developed paragraphs,

and a conclusion. Since the paper is short, you must be careful to make what you write important

to your argument.

Papers should use a standard margin and a 12-point font, double-spaced.

A bibliography is not required for this paper. You should properly cite references, pages, and panel

numbers where necessary