SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Comics: We Are on Our Own

»Katin started creating comics in the 2000s. She said, "I discovered comics for myself at age 63." Inspired by Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus, a Holocaust memoir, she started to work on her first graphic novel, about her and her mother's experiences during World War II. The finished product, titled We Are on Our Own, was published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2006. It is drawn in black-and-white pencil and incorporates some of Katin's family photos.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century 21^st Century

II. Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | European History: German History, Hungarian History, Russian History

III. Topical Index: Cases: Fictional Victims: Esther; Real Incidents: Sexual Violence during the Holocaust | Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Oster, Sharon B. »The Graphics of Sexual Violence in Miriam Katin's We Are on Our Own and Letting It Go.« The Story's Not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives. Edited by Victoria Aarons. 2025: 213-236.

[Info] Schlosser, Andrea. »Specters of the Past: Transgenerational Memory in Miriam Katin’s Graphic Memoirs We Are On Our Own and Letting It Go.« Genealogy 4(2) (2020).

[Info] Szép, Eszter. »Discourses of Trauma and Representation: Motherhood and Mother Tongue in Miriam Katin’s Graphic Memoirs.« Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage. Edited by Dominic Davies et al. Cham 2020: 243-262.

II. Speaker Index