Holocaust graphic novel ‘Maus’ banned in Tennessee county schools over nudity and profanity
From Art Spiegelman’s “MetaMaus” — a 25th-anniversary “Maus” compendium. (Art Spiegelman and Pantheon Books) A faculty district in Tennessee banned using “Maus,” a Pulitzer-winning photograph novel about the Holocaust, in its middle college lessons, bringing up the paintings’s profanity and nudity in a ten-to-0 vote. As leaders in conservative areas across the united states push for greater manipulate over the way history is taught, the McMinn County school board expressed challenge that the expletives in “Maus” have been inappropriate for 8th-graders. Members also said Art Spiegelman’s illustrations showing nudity — which depict Holocaust sufferers forced to strip at some point of their internment in Nazi awareness camps — were fallacious. “I’ve study it and examine through all of it. … I favored it,” said Mike Cochran, a board member who voted to restrict the graphic novel’s use. He said that the concern was important but that “there were other components that have been complet...