Scarecrow Press
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978-0-8108-4038-6 • Paperback • May 2001 • $98.00 • (£75.00)
John M. Kean, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, has taught and published articles on children's and young adult literature, the teaching of writing, and censorship in the schools. He has been a member and chair of the NCTE Committee Against Censorship and a member of the CEE Commission on Intellectual Freedom and the IRA Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom.
The late Lee Burress, Professor Emeritus, English, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, taught and published on American literature, folklore, composition, and literary censorship and was a member and chair of the NCTE Committee Against Censorship. He was author, co-author, or co-editor of Battle of the Books (Scarecrow, 1989); Celebrating Censored Books (with Nicholas Karolides); How Censorship Affects the School and Other Essays; and The Student's Right to Know (with Edward Jenkinson).
Nicholas Karolides is Professor of English and Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Wisconsin-River Falls. His recent books include Reader Response in the Classroom, Evoking and Interpreting Literature in the Classroom, Focus on Physical Impairments, and Focus on Fitness (with Melissa Karolides).
Part 1 Acknowledgments
Part 2 Introduction
Part 3 Prologue
How to Be Obscene by Upton Sinclair
Part 4 I. PERSPECTIVES: CENSORSHIP BY OMISSION AND COMMISSION
Chapter 5 1. On Censorship
Chapter 6 2. Blackballing
Chapter 7 3. Not Laughable, But Lethal
Chapter 8 4. Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry
Chapter 9 5. White-outs and Black-outs on the Book Shelves
Chapter 10 6. "Shut Not Your Doors": An Author Looks at Censorship
Part 11 II. CHALLENGING BOOKS
Chapter 12 7. A Rationale for Teaching Huckleberry Finn
Chapter 13 8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Review of Historical Challenges
Chapter 14 9. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Chapter 15 10. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
Chapter 16 11. In Defense of: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Deenie, and Blubber— Three Novels by Judy Blume
Chapter 17 12. The Bible: Source of Great Literature and Controversy
Chapter 18 13. The Bible and the Constitution
Chapter 19 14. Black Boy (American Hunger): Freedom to Remember
Chapter 20 15. Black Like Me: In Defense of a Racial Reality
Chapter 21 16. Bless the Beasts and Children by Glendon Swarthout
Chapter 22 17. The Relevance of Brave New World
Chapter 23 18. Huxley's Brave New World as Social Irritant: Ban It or Buy It?
Chapter 24 19. "Alas, alas, That ever love was sin!"
Marriages Moral and Immoral in Chaucer
Chapter 25 20. If You Want to Know the Truth...:The Catcher in the Rye
Chapter 26 21. Fighting Words in and over Catch-22
Chapter 27 22. "They tell you to do your own thing, but they don't mean it.":
Censorship and The Chocolate War
Chapter 28 23. Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange
Chapter 29 24. She's Just Too Womanish for Them:
Alice Walker and The Color Purple
Chapter 30 25. Fueling the Fire of Hell: A Reply to Censors of The Crucible
Chapter 31 26. Death of a Salesman: An American Classic
Chapter 32 27. The Debate in Literary Consciousness:
Dickey's Deliverance
Chapter 33 28. "Messing up the minds of the citizenry en route": Essential Questions of Value in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Chapter 34 29. A Farewell to Arms
Chapter 35 30. A Defense of A Farewell to Arms
Chapter 36 31. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Chapter 37 32. "If we cannot trust..." The Pertinence of Judy Blume's Forever
Chapter 38 33. "Whatsoever things are pure..." A Case for Go Ask Alice
Chapter 39 34. An Apologia for Pearl Buck's The Good Earth
Chapter 40 35. The Grapes of Wrath:
Preserving Its Place in the Curriculum
Chapter 41 36. A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich:
A Rationale for Classroom Use
Chapter 42 37. If Beale Street Could Talk: A Rationale for Classroom Use
Chapter 43 38. Maya Angelou Is Three Writers:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Chapter 44 39. Learning to Live: When the Bird Breaks from the Cage
Chapter 45 40. The Stop of Truth: In the Night Kitchen
Chapter 46 41. It's OK If You Don't Love Me: Evaluating Anticipated Experiences of Readers
Chapter 47 42. Johnny Got His Gun: A Depression Era Classic
Chapter 48 43. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Chapter 49 44. Gordon Parks' The Learning Tree:
Autobiography and Education
Chapter 50 45. Teaching Rationale for William Golding's Lord of the Flies
Chapter 51 46. Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"
Chapter 52 47. Manchild in a World Where You Just Might Make It:
Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land
Chapter 53 48. Reflections on "The Shylock Problem"
Chapter 54 49. Supporting Traditional Values:
My Darling, My Hamburger
Chapter 55 50. Why Nineteen Eighty-Four Should Be Read and Taught
Chapter 56 51. A Teachable Good Book: Of Mice and Men
Chapter 57 52. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Chapter 58 53. Moby Dick vs. Big Nurse: A Feminist Defense of a Misogynist Text: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Chapter 59 54. Threshold Literature: A Discussion of Ordinary People
Chapter 60 55. In Defense of Our Bodies, Ourselves
Chapter 61 56. A Look Inside a Landmark: The Outsiders
Chapter 62 57. Is Run, Shelley, Run Worth Fighting For?
Chapter 63 58. Penance and Repentance in The Scarlet Letter
Chapter 64 59. A Rationale for Reading John Knowles' A Separate Peace
Chapter 65 60. Authenticity and Relevance:
Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
Chapter 66 61. Censoring Judy Blume and Then Again, Maybe I Won't
Chapter 67 62. In Defense of To Kill a Mockingbird
Chapter 68 63. Finding Humor and Value in Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic
Chapter 69 About the Contributors
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— VOYA
...should be mandatory reading for all librarians and educators....it is the eloquence of the essays, not the number of them, that makes this book impressive....recommended for every professional's shelf.
— School Library Journal
Although this collection of essays is aimed at assisting the growing numbers of students, teachers, and librarians who may have to confront censorship, Censored Books will be of interest to anyone involved in the world of books.
— AB Bookman's Weekly
...a fine review of censorship problems that have surfaced in this country over the past three decades....recommended for all professional collections.
— Public Library Quarterly
This is a book for educators struggling with the philosophical issues of selection and censorship....Highly recommended.
— Book Report
Bound to be of assistance to teachers and librarians besieged by claims that removing vital works of literature will somehow protect the moral purity of children....communicates an optimistic belief that the joys of reading eventually triumph.
— Booklist
This book is a critical testament, the most revealing evidence published for many years.
— Library Association Record
This is a rich, deep, multifaceted work of great value to librarians, educators, and the general public, who will gain much from its open, readable style. All public, school, and academic libraries need this work for edification, pure enjoyment of its contents, and as a practical tool ready for use when the worst case appears at their doorstep.
— Rq
This collection of essays is an invaluable reference book for all libraries.
— Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom
Scarecrow Press consistently publishes quality work on important topics....
— Australian Library Journal
...offers excellent rationales...for reading the book—by Twain, Steinbeck, Angelou, and others—which have been censored.
— The Saint Louis Journalism Review
...serves to remind one of the many insidious ways through which censorship operates and ultimately stifles creativity....a valuable book which avoids being alarmist or hysterical but urges vigilance, and awareness of the dangers of complacency.
— Journal of Information and Library Research
...fill[s] a niche that few anthologies on censorship address.
— L&C
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