If we want literature to improve our lives, often we must read–and teach–works that unsettle.
Tag Archives: cancel culture
We Need Disturbing Lit If We Are to Grow
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bluest Eye, C.S. Lewis, Cat's Eye, censorship, Clansman, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Light in August, Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lottery, Margaret Atwood, Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson, Thomas Dixon, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner Comments closed
Pushing Back against the Purity Police
While not as bad as fascists for censoring reading materials, leftwing purists present their own problems.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged censorship, Harper Lee, Kate Clanchy, Robert Hayden, To Kill a Mockingbird, virtue police Comments closed
Should We Cancel This Children’s Classic?
Should we cancel “Little Black Sambo,” which I loved as a child. I wrestle with the question here.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Fascism, free speech, Helen Bannerman, Little Black Sambo Comments closed
Milton on Cancel Culture
Yale professor Bromwich applies Milton to the cancel culture debate.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Areopagitica, censorship, David Bromwich, free speech, John Milton, Paradise Lost Comments closed
How Whites Cancel Readers of Color
Rightwingers complain that liberals are canceling Dr. Seuss. Real cancelation, however, uses racial stereotyping, of which Seuss was occasionally guilty.
A Fable about Cancel Culture
While the left doesn’t practice cancel culture to the degree that the right does, it is still a concern, as a recent open letter to “Harper’s” makes clear. So does this Scott Bates fable.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Recalcitrant Piece of Mimeograph Paper", political correctness, Scott Bates Comments closed
