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Jan 28 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
A school board in Tennessee has voted to remove the Holocaust-themed graphic novel 'Maus' from its eighth-grade language arts curriculum, citing profanity and nudity contained in the Pulitzer Prize-winning work by cartoonist Art Spiegelman reut.rs/3KRpjA0
The 10-0 vote by the McMinn County Board of Education in Athens, Tennessee, located about 150 miles southeast of Nashville, came on Jan. 10 but gained wide U.S. media attention, ironically coinciding with International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The board vote overrode a state-level curriculum review that had approved the teaching of 'Maus,' based on the real-life Holocaust experiences of Spiegelman's parents in Poland, with Jewish characters depicted as mice and their Nazi persecutors as cats
The title of the two-volume publication, which became the first graphic novel to be awarded a Pulitzer in 1992, is the German word for mouse reut.rs/3KRpjA0

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