Literature and the New Culture Wars

Triggers, Cancel Culture, and the Teacher's Dilemma

Literature and the New Culture Wars
Deborah Appleman
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Hardback
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7 Oct 2022 US
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9781324019183
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Our current "culture wars" have reshaped the politics of secondary literature instruction. Due to a variety of challenges from both the left and the right-to language or subject matter, to potentially triggering content, or to authors who have been canceled-school reading lists are rapidly shrinking. For many teachers, choosing which books to include in their curriculum has become an agonizing task with political, professional, and ethical dimensions. In Literature and the New Culture Wars, Deborah Appleman calls for a reacknowledgment of the intellectual and affective work that literature can do, and offers ways to continue to teach troubling texts without doing harm. Rather than banishing challenged texts from our classrooms, she writes, we should be confronting and teaching the controversies they invoke. Her book is a timely and eloquent argument for a reasoned approach to determining what literature still deserves to be read and taught and discussed.
Now more than ever, educators need to feel encouraged and empowered to teach literature that reflects what is happening in the world today, that acknowledges and reckons with the past, and that enlivens hope for an equitable and just future. Literature and the New Culture Wars is the book that honors and makes visible those educators doing this necessary work. --Marcelle Haddix, Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives, Syracuse University
Deborah Appleman lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and is the Hollis L. Caswell Professor of Educational Studies at Carleton College.
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ISBN-13: 9781324019183
Published: 7 Oct 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Height: 193mm
Width: 122mm
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 245g
Pages: 192

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