Adult Reads
\nMaus by Art Spiegelman<\/p>\n
We usually focus on prose novels in this blog, but we\u2019re branching out to a graphic novel.<\/p>\n
Art Spiegelman\u2019s biographical graphic novel Maus<\/em> made headlines when it became the first comic book to win a Pullitzer Prize. Using the classic comic book convention of human-like talking animals as characters, the Nazis are presented as predatory cats and the Jewish people are mice, hence the title<\/p>\n The book has two intertwining narratives. The first is about Art trying to tease from his father the story of his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, and the second is the father’s actual story. The result is a captivating true tale of inhumanity, survival, and the lingering effects of trauma.<\/p>\n Now Maus<\/em> has made headlines again, as a schoolboard in Tennessee has recently banned it, citing language and nudity. This action set off a firestorm around the world, with the banning being decried and cited as a part of a disturbing trend in school libraries. As often happens in these situations,\u00a0Maus<\/em> has returned to the bestseller list as readers attempt to see what the fuss is all about.<\/p>\n Maus is an incredible (if painful) book, and one that is sure to win over anyone who thinks comics are just for kids. If you haven’t read it, give it a try, and if you have, why not give it a reread?<\/p>\n Douglas Davey Adult Reads Maus by Art Spiegelman We usually focus on prose novels in this blog, but we\u2019re branching out to a graphic novel. Art Spiegelman\u2019s biographical graphic novel Maus made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":[],"_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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