15 Giugno 2015 12:26

Oscenità! Oscenità! Al bando Sandman, Persepolis et al.

C’è chi non ha ancora le idee chiare su cosa sia veramente osceno, nel mondo degli esseri umani. Fortunatamente il professore i libri citati li ha messi nel corso, così chi non ha le idee chiare potrà finalmente chiarirsele a lezione:
 
“… A 20-year-old attending Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa, California, was so dismayed by the graphic content in four of the graphic novels required by her English 250 course — official description: “the study of the graphic novel as a viable medium of literature through readings, in-class discussion and analytical assignments” — that she and her parents are seeking to have them banned by the administration. In addition to Persepolis, Shultz took exception to Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, the first volume of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s Y: The Last Man, and Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg & Co.’s The Sandman: The Doll’s House, due to the depictions of sex, violence and “obscenities.”…”