Maureen Corrigan
Författare till Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
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Maureen Corrigan is the book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, the Critic in residence at Georgetown University, and winner of the Edgar Award for Criticism. She is the author of Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading.
Verk av Maureen Corrigan
Canceled Authors 1 exemplar
Contesting the Great American Novel 1 exemplar
Fun Home : An All-Too-Graphic Memoir 1 exemplar
The Backlash Against Harry Potter 1 exemplar
The Textbook Wars 1 exemplar
Alice Walker and Toni Morrison under Attack 1 exemplar
The Battle over Critical Race Theory 1 exemplar
Attempts to Suppress #MeToo Books 1 exemplar
Young Adult Fiction and Its Discontents 1 exemplar
To Kill a Mockingbird, Then and Now 1 exemplar
Huckleberry Finn and Race in America 1 exemplar
The Hidden Dangers of Fairy Tales 1 exemplar
New Kids’ Books, Old Objections 1 exemplar
Contested Classics of Children’s Literature 1 exemplar
Authors Who Censor Themselves 1 exemplar
Artistry, Morality, and Nabokov’s “Lolita” 1 exemplar
Holden Caulfield’s Subversive Voice 1 exemplar
Allen Ginsberg’s Alerming “Howl” 1 exemplar
Books on Fire : The Reformation to Rushdie 1 exemplar
Anthony Comstock's Moral Crusade 1 exemplar
Censors from the Inquisition to the Puritans 1 exemplar
The Defense for Lady Chatterley's Lover 1 exemplar
Ulysses on Trial 1 exemplar
Bowdlerizing the Bard 1 exemplar
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The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 389 exemplar
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historical backdrop and working its way toward the modern day, with a near-total US centric focus.
Once we get, roughly at midpoint, closer to the present era, the usual fault lines of this topic begin to emerge. As you would expect from a critic with a gig at NPR there is little second guessing when covering the impact of #MeToo cancellations - accusations is enough to warrant books being removed from publishing or shelves, under the neoliberal idea of "it's not censorship because we're allowed to determine what we stock or sell". However, in lectures about school boards "banning books" for content the ability to buy these banned books and read them isn't brought up as a counterpoint for why it's "not really censorship". The controversy over Critical Race Theory is given a lecture, and dismissed as the fevered imagining of conservatives, yet sprinkled throughout the critical theory (not CRT) assumptions about identity politics are assumed real and not critiqued at all. It's simply given as a fact.
Now to her credit, books being attacked from the left is actually brought up, such as in the context of banning Huck Finn for sensitivity reasons, or going after To Kill A Mockingbird. However, the defense of books turns toothless and pleading in this context, with a deference given to their positions, instead of a full throated defense of missing the whole point of said books. In other words, it's roughly what you'd expect.
The biggest omission from a book with this title though is the hard cases. Most of these controversies are kicking in open doors for book lovers. Al Quaeda propaganda, Mein Kampf, bomb making instructions, open access viral databases, there are a lot more book/information controversies with life and death stakes - worthy for inclusion next to comic books with gay sex scenes?… (mer)