„I need to show the events and memory of the Holocaust without showing them.” (Art Spiegelman)

Contra
-starke Aufteilung der Ethnien in Kategorien
-Abhandenkommen von Individualität

Pro
-Kollektiverfahrung wird deutlich
-neuer Kontext zur Darstellung von Grausamkeiten 

„If your list were divided into literature and nonliterature, I could gracefully accept the compliment as intended, but to the extent that „fiction“ indicates that a work isn‘t factual, I feel a bit queezy. As an author I believe I might have lopped several years off the 13 I devoted to my two-volume project if I could only have taken a novelist‘s license while searching for a novelistic structure. The borderland between fiction and nonfiction has been fertile territory for some of the most potent contemporary writing, and it‘s not as though my passages on how to build a bunker and repair concentration camp boots got the book onto your advice, how-to and miscellaneous list. It‘s just that I shudder to think how David Duke-if he could read-would respond seeing a carefully researched work based closely on my father‘s memories of life in Hitler‘s Europe and in the death camps classified as fiction. I know that by delineating people with animal heads I‘ve raised problems of taxonomy for you. Could you consider adding a special „nonfiction/mice“ category to your list?“

(Spiegelmann, letter to the editor, New York Times Book Review, 29 Dec. 1991, p. 4.)

Bitte äußert euch zu dem Zitat und bezieht euch, wenn möglich, auch auf den Begriff der „familial postmemory“ von Hirsch.