Dave Fanning chats to Dr Linda King from the Institute of Art and Design in Dun Laoghaire about how the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee, voted to remove Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus from their curriculum, citing concerns over profanity and nude images - listen above.
Originally published in, Spiegelman's work recounts the experiences of the author's father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as mice and Nazis as cats. The furore surrounding the Tennessee incident has seen Maus return to bestseller lists in the U.S.
