After School Board Bans Maus, It Soars on Amazon – By Rob Quinn (Newser) / January 31, 2022
They objected to language, violence in Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust book
(NEWSER) – Update: A Tennessee school board’s decision to keep Art Spiegelman’s Maus out of the hands of 8th graders has fueled a buying spree. Mediaite reports that as of Sunday, the hardcover format of The Complete Maus is the No. 1 best seller on Amazon in the books category. Other editions sit atop other Amazon lists, including the History, Graphic Novels, and Biographies categories. Meanwhile, Knoxville’s Nirvana Comics bookstore launched a GoFundMe that originally planned to buy copies that could be loaned to local students. With contributed funds now nearing $80,000, the goal has shifted to buying copies that will be given to students who are both local and live across the US. Our original story from Thursday follows:
Art Spiegelman’s Maus, which tells the story of his Jewish parents’ experiences during the Holocaust, is the only graphic novel ever to have won a Pulitzer Prize—but a Tennessee school board has decided it doesn’t belong in the curriculum. At a Jan. 10 meeting, the McMinn County Board of Education voted 10-0 to pull the book, which depicts Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, from the eighth-grade curriculum. Members cited concerns including a depiction of a nude female and “rough, objectionable language” like the words “God damn,” CNN reports. Board member Tony Allman also complained about violence. “It shows people hanging, it shows them killing kids, why does the educational system promote this kind of stuff?” he said. “It is not wise or healthy.”
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