On January 10, the McMinn County Board of Education in Tennessee, United States, voted to remove Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus from the eighth-grade English Language Arts curriculum. They did so on the grounds of profanity and depictions of nudity. This Pulitzer Prize-winning book, which captures the life of a Holocaust survivor, is based on what Mr Spiegelman’s father — a Polish Jew — personally went through under the Nazi regime.
The Board’s decision has been widely criticised within the US and outside. While some have called it an anti-Semitic move, others have lambasted the Board for stifling artistic freedom. The
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