A SCHOOL BOARD in the US state of Tennessee has added to a surge in book bans by conservatives with an order to remove Maus, an award-winning 1986 graphic novel on the Holocaust, from local student libraries.
Maus was highly acclaimed when it was published as a compilation of Spiegelman’s serialized tale of the experiences of his father, a Polish Jewish man, with the Nazis and in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. “There is some rough, objectionable language in this book,” said school board director Lee Parkison, who proposed just redacting those parts of the book.
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