Good lit can function like social dynamite, but it’s dynamite that’s needed for growth. Parents against growth therefore attempt to ban them.
Tag Archives: censorship
Why Books Banned? They Change Lives
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged banned books week, Beloved, book bans, Homer, Odyssey, Plato, Toni Morrison, Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Idaho Libraries & “My Brilliant Friend”
Idaho libraries are under attack and children must now have parent-signed waivers to use them. Thankfully this is not the case in Ferrante’s “My Brilliant Friend.”
Unexpected Book Bans
Book bans were on the rise in the 2023-24 school year–sometimes for understandable reasons, sometimes not.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "The Hille We Climb", Amanda Gorman, Anne Frank, banned books, Better Living through Literature, Charlotte's Webb, Diary of a Young Girl, E. B. White, Edgar Rice Burroughs, freedom of speech, Harriet the Spy, Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling, James and the Giant Peach, Louise Fitzhugh, Maurice Sendak, Maus, Roald Dahl, Robin Bates, Tarzan, Trumpism, Twelfth Night, Where the Wild Things Are, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Florida School Pulls Paradise Lost
A Florida County has pulled “Paradise Lost” from the shelves. It’s true that the work has “sexual content.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bacchae, Book banning, canon wars, Euripides, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Ron DeSantis, Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison Comments closed
On Defending Books against Bullies
On book banning and how to respond to the banners.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Smut", Antonia Scatton, Beloved, Book banning, Tom Lehrer, Toni Morrison Comments closed
Kennedy Defended Controversial Lit
J.F. Kennedy praised lit that challenges society.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged artists, Book banning, John F. Kennedy, Robert Frost Comments closed
Boys That Don’t Fit the Gender Stereotype
Georgia has fired a teacher for sharing “My Shadow Is Purple,” thus denying her kids a narrative that they urgently need to hear.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged authoritarianism, Boy in a Dress, David Williamson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Katherine Rinderle, L. Frank Baum, Land of Oz, LGBTQ+ issues, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Milt Diamond, My Shadow Is Purple, Stuart Scott, Supergirl, Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare Comments closed
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.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bluest Eye, C.S. Lewis, cancel culture, Cat's Eye, 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
In Censoring Gorman, We Censor Hope
Buckling to rightwing pressure, a school has banned Amanda Gorman’s “Hill We Climb” from elementary students. My 8-year-old grandson loved it.
