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The Dr. Seuss Museum and His Wartime Cartoons about Japan and Japanese Americans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Richard Minear  and
Sopan Deb
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Abstract

This two-part article reconsiders the legacy of Dr. Seuss as presented in the new Dr. Seuss Museum in Springfield, against the author's little known wartime cartoon representations of the Japanese. It represents important questions about the representation of writers, heroes, even the beloved, in their finest and least memorable moments.

Keywords

Dr. SeussDr. Seuss MuseumPM newspaperWorld War II propagandacartoonswartime representations of the “Japs”
Type
Research Article
Information
Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 15 , Issue 16 , August 2017 , e1
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 2017

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Notes

1 Richard H. Minear, Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel (New York: The New Press, 1999) includes two hundred cartoons; for the roughly two hundred cartoons I did not include, see here.

2 Mark Pratt, “‘Oh the Places You'll Go’ inside the Dr. Seuss museum,” Concord Monitor, June 6, 2017.

3 Interview by Jonathan Cott, Pipers at the Gates of Dawn (New York: Random House, 1983).