Nudity and bad language.
That’s a Tennessee school board’s excuse for banning Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel “Maus.”
Not Holocaust denial.
Not antisemitism.
Not a hundred other things they don’t want to admit to themselves about themselves.
It was simply a dirty drawing and some curse words.
The graphic novel focuses on the cartoonist and his estranged father. Spiegelman slowly unravels the true story of how his dad survived the Holocaust. All the while, the son draws the narrative portraying Jewish people as mice and Germans as cats.
It’s a work of literature that looks directly into the unfathomable and recontextualizes it into something we can attempt to understand.
The committee at Columbia University awarded the story a Pulitzer Prize – the only graphic novel yet to win such a prestigious award.
But the Tennessee school board awarded it their walking papers.
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