Morison’s “Bluest Eye” functions as an implicit rebuke of the Ohio legislature’s attack on abortion.
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Bluest Eye and Ohio’s Abortion Politics
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We Need Disturbing Lit If We Are to Grow
If we want literature to improve our lives, often we must read–and teach–works that unsettle.
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Book Bans Leave Children Defenseless
Parents seek to protect their children through book bans. Instead, they make them more vulnerable to a changing world.
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Lit as a Survival Toolkit
Thursday Friend and occasional guest blogger Carl Rosin alerted me to a heartfelt Commonweal article by an English professor describing how literature helped her confront and work through childhood abuse. Cassandra Nelson’s difficult history leads to some remarkable insights into trigger warnings, which she opposes. Nelson’s view on trigger warnings is pretty much my own […]
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Lit for Survivors Lost in a Dark Wood
Monday Commonweal recently published a heartfelt article by West Point visiting English professor Cassandra Nelson on how literature can help trauma survivors recover. Nelson begins with an angry comment about a University of Chicago dean’s facile dismissal of trigger warnings, even though she herself opposes them. She, however, speaks from the vantage point of one […]
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Children Lit’s Changing Racial Landscape
My mixed race granddaughters have children’s books with protagonists of color. It’s a far cry from the Dick-Jane-and-Sally books of my childhood and of the reality described by Toni Morrison’s “Bluest Eye.”
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What Personal Reading Histories Tell Us
I can’t recommend enough the value of writing your reading history. It will reveal to you sides of yourself you didn’t know you had.
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