Sight-Seeing: Let schoolkids read ‘Maus,’ lest they don’t read at all
KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, in an article published by Religion News Service, argues that the power books have is not in what they tell, but how they tell…
In the US, Tennessee school board bans acclaimed Holocaust graphic novel, ‘Maus’
RNS A Tennessee school board voted unanimously to remove a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust from its curriculum earlier this month over concerns about offensive words. The 10-member board of education in McMinn County, nearly 100 kilometres south of Knoxville, voted on 10th January to remove the book Maus, by Art Spiegelman. The […]