A Tennessee school board voted to remove “Maus,” a graphic novel about the Holocaust, from its eighth-grade curriculum, citing offensive language, violence and sex
A Tennessee school board voted to remove “Maus,” a graphic novel about the Holocaust, from its eighth-grade curriculum because of concerns over themes and language it deemed offensive, according to“Maus,” Art Spiegelman’s 300-page graphic
novel in which Nazis are depicted as cats and Jews as mice, received a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Published in two volumes in 1986 and 1991, it recounts the experiences of Mr. Spiegelman’s parents in Nazi-occupied Poland and later at Auschwitz.
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