Maus

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/14/2023
  

  As More Schools Ban "Maus," Art Spiegelman Fears Worse to Come

  “It’s a real warning sign of a country that’s yearning for a return of authoritarianism,” Spiegelman tells Post columnist Greg Sargent of the challenge made against his graphic-format Holocaust history by residents of Nixa, Missouri. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/3/2023
  

  How Maus Changed the Place of Comics in Culture

  Two new books trace the path of Art Spiegelman's masterpiece from an underground serialized story to an educational text, a process which has unfortunately tended to shape the work to the needs of a society that is obliged to teach about the Holocaust but uncomfortable learning about it. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  4/1/2022
  

  The Texas School District Considering Banning "Maus" Needs to Reconsider

  "Before reading Maus, if I had a sense of what Nazis were, it was as abstract villains, the bad guys Indiana Jones fought."

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  2/17/2022
  

  My Life With Maus

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Although the aftermath of the Tennessee "Maus" controversy involved a flood of donated copies sent to the local community and the book's return to the bestseller charts, the revival of book-banning sentiments bodes ill for the course of the nation. 

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• SOURCE: Vulture
  2/14/2022
  

  Art Spiegelman Interviewed on Maus, Art and History, and his Missing Glasses

  The graphic memoirist says that the Tennessee controversy probably doesn't reflect any antisemitic bigotry, but a desire to find a catharsis that fixes the horror of the Holocaust instead of recognizing it as ongoing. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  2/1/2022
  

  The Banning of Maus: Even Dumber Than You Think

  David Corn says that for the students of McMinn County, "their intellectual development is being held hostage by board members who are stuck in another era, who find vulgarity in an old pop song, and who cannot be bothered to do their own homework."

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• SOURCE: Substack
  1/27/2022
  

  Maus in Tennessee

  by Jeet Heer

  The stated objections to Maus – profanity, nudity, filial disrespect, violence – are impossible to separate from the fact that the book is a graphic history of the Holocaust. 

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• SOURCE: BBC
  1/27/2022
  

  Tennessee School Board Bans Holocaust Graphic Memoir "Maus"

  Author Art Spiegelman called the decision "Orwellian" and suggested young people would be deprived of knowledge.