The Pulitzer Prize-winning book Maus by Art Spiegelman’s chronicles the lives of his parents in 1940s Poland during the Holocaust and their internment in Auschwitz, depicting Nazis as cats and Jewish people as mice.
Earlier this month, the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee banned the book. Its removal has drawn international attention.
The lecture by Professor Michael Rothberg, an American literature and memory studies scholar, provides new insight on the book and on memory.
