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New in Paperback! This collection of sixty-three essays provides assistance to the growing number of students, teachers, librarians, and parents who find themselves confronting a censorship situation. The contributors are both authors_of fiction, drama, and poetry for adults, children, and adolescents_and teachers of literature, writing about the books that are most frequently challenged in schools and libraries. Part I provides six authors' perspectives on censorship by omission and commission. Part II provides responses and defenses of individual books. Paperback edition available May 2001.

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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, this collection of essays includes both broad statements against censorship and articles defending individual books that have been relentlessly challenged during the past 50 years--for notorious example, Huckleberry Finn, described as "poison" even by the Human Relations Committee of a Virginia intermediate school named after Mark Twain. One particularly commendable entry is Laura Quinn's "Moby Dick vs. Big Nurse: A Feminist Defense of a Misogynist Text: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest." Quinn's view may be politically unpopular, but it is quite convincing. The book also includes material that argues that racism often lurks behind claims of obscenity, since a disproportionately high number of books by and about minorities are on the banned lists throughout the nation. Despite the grimness of repression, Censored Books communicates an optimistic belief that the joys of reading eventually triumph. ~--Aaron Cohen

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The late Lee Curress, Professor Emeritus, English, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, taught and published American literature, folklore, composition and literary censorship and was a member and chair of the NCTE Committee Against Censorship.

(Bowker Author Biography)