Censored books : critical viewpoints / edited by Nicholas J. Karolides, Lee Burress, John M. Kean.
A collection of essays confronting the censorship issue, including six authors' views and defenses of individual books.
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Metuchen, N.J. :
Scarecrow Press,
1993.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Lee Burress, Nicholas J. Karolides and John M. Kean
- Prologue: How to be obscene / Upton Sinclair
- I. Perspectives: censorship by omission and commission
- 1. On censorship / Arthur Miller
- 2. Blackballing / John A. Williams
- 3. Not laughable, but lethal / Norma Fox Mazer
- 4. Take the tortillas out of your poetry / Rudolfo A. Anaya
- 5. White-outs and black-outs on the book shelves / Mary Stolz
- 6. "Shut not your doors": an author looks at censorship / Lee Bennett Hopkins
- II. Challenging books
- 7. A rationale for teaching Huckleberry Finn / John M. Kean
- 8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: review of historical challenges / Arlene Harris Mitchell
- 9. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl / Katherine Paterson
- 10. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden / William Sleator
- 11. In defense of: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Deenie, and Blubber--three novels by Judy Blume / Robin F. Brancato
- 12. The Bible: source of great literature and controversy / Edward B. Jenkinson
- 13. The Bible and the Constitution / Robert M. O'Neil
- 14. Black Boy (American Hunger): freedom to remember / Maryemma Graham and Jerry W. Ward Jr.
- 15. Black Like Me: in defense of a racial reality / Walter C. Farrell, Jr.
- 16. Bless the Beasts and Children by Glendon Swarthout / Sue Ellen Bridgers
- 17. The relevance of Brave New World / Robert M. Adams
- 18. Huxley's Brave New World as social irritant: ban it or buy it? / Richard H. Beckham
- 19. "Alas, alas, that ever love was sin!": marriages moral and immoral in Chaucer / Margaret Odegard
- 20. If you want to know the truth ... : The Catcher in the Rye / Norbert Blei
- 21. Fighting words in and over Catch-22 / Marshall Toman
- 22. "They tell you to do your own thing, but they don't mean it.": censorship and The Chocolate War / Zibby Oneal
- 23. Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange / Douglas A. Pearson, Jr.
- 24. She's just too womanish for them: Alice Walker and The Color Purple / Angelene Jamison-Hall
- 25. Fueling the fire of hell: a reply to censors of The Crucible / Joan DelFattore
- 26. Death of a Salesman: an American classic / Harry Harder
- 27. The debate in literary consciousness: Dickey's Deliverance / Robert Beck
- 28. "Messing up the minds of the citizenry en route": essential questions of value in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test / Terry Beck
- 29. A Farewell to Arms / James A. Michener
- 30. A defense of A Farewell to Arms / Jim Mulvey
- 31. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes / Robert Small, Jr.
- 32. "If we cannot trust ... ": the pertinence of Judy Blume's Forever / Frank Battaglia
- 33. "Whatsoever things are pure ... ": a case for Go Ask Alice / Jean P. Rumsey
- 34. An apologia for Pearl Buck's The Good Earth / Imogene DeSmet
- 35. The Grapes of Wrath: preserving its place in the curriculum / Lee Burress
- 36. A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich: a rationale for classroom use / Frank Zidonis
- 37. If Beale Street Could Talk: a rationale for classroom use / William G. McBride
- 38. Maya Angelou is three writers: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / James Bertolino
- 39. Learning to live: when the bird breaks from the cage / Opal Moore
- 40. The stop of truth: In the Night Kitchen / Paula Fox
- 41. It's OK If You Don't Love Me: evaluating anticipated experiences of readers / Nicholas J. Karolides
- 42. Johnny Got His Gun: a depression era classic / James DeMuth
- 43. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George / Geneva T. Van Horne
- 44. Gordon Parks' The Learning Tree: autobiography and education / Gilbert Powell Findlay
- 45. Teaching rationale for William Golding's Lord of the Flies / Paul Slayton
- 46. Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" / Jack Stark
- 47. Manchild in a world where you just might make it: Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land / Sue Bridwell Beckham
- 48. Reflections on "The Shylock Problem" / Gladys V. Veidemanis
- 49. Supporting traditional values: My Darling, My Hamburger / Lee Burress
- 50. Why Nineteen Eighty-Four should be read and taught / James E. Davis
- 51. A teachable good book: Of Mice and Men / Thomas Scarseth
- 52. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn / Frederik Pohl
- 53. Moby Dick vs. Big Nurse: a feminist defense of a misogynist text: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Laura Quinn
- 54. Threshold literature: a discussion of Ordinary People / Roll Neuhaus
- 55. In defense of Our Bodies, Ourselves / Alleen Pace Nilsen
- 56. A look inside a landmark: The Outsiders / John S. Simmons
- 57. Is Run, Shelley, Run worth fighting for? / Gloria Treadwell Pipkin
- 58. Penance and repentance in The Scarlet Letter / Richard Gappa
- 59. A rationale for reading John Knowles' A Separate Peace / David G. Holborn
- 60. Authenticity and relevance: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five / Peter J. Reed
- 61. Censoring Judy Blume and Then Again, Maybe I Won't / Mel Krutz
- 62. In defense of To Kill a Mockingbird / Jill May
- 63. Finding humor and value in Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic / John M. Kean.