Maureen Corrigan
Auteur de Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
A propos de l'auteur
Maureen Corrigan is the book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, the Critic in residence at Georgetown University, and winner of the Edgar Award for Criticism. She is the author of Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading.
Œuvres de Maureen Corrigan
Canceled Authors 1 exemplaire
Contesting the Great American Novel 1 exemplaire
Fun Home : An All-Too-Graphic Memoir 1 exemplaire
The Backlash Against Harry Potter 1 exemplaire
The Textbook Wars 1 exemplaire
Alice Walker and Toni Morrison under Attack 1 exemplaire
The Battle over Critical Race Theory 1 exemplaire
Attempts to Suppress #MeToo Books 1 exemplaire
Young Adult Fiction and Its Discontents 1 exemplaire
To Kill a Mockingbird, Then and Now 1 exemplaire
Huckleberry Finn and Race in America 1 exemplaire
The Hidden Dangers of Fairy Tales 1 exemplaire
New Kids’ Books, Old Objections 1 exemplaire
Contested Classics of Children’s Literature 1 exemplaire
Authors Who Censor Themselves 1 exemplaire
Artistry, Morality, and Nabokov’s “Lolita” 1 exemplaire
Holden Caulfield’s Subversive Voice 1 exemplaire
Allen Ginsberg’s Alerming “Howl” 1 exemplaire
Books on Fire : The Reformation to Rushdie 1 exemplaire
Anthony Comstock's Moral Crusade 1 exemplaire
Censors from the Inquisition to the Puritans 1 exemplaire
The Defense for Lady Chatterley's Lover 1 exemplaire
Ulysses on Trial 1 exemplaire
Bowdlerizing the Bard 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Contributeur — 389 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Corrigan, Maureen
- Date de naissance
- 1954-11-16
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Études
- Fordham University
University of Pennsylvania - Professions
- Lecturer and critic in residence, Georgetown University
book critic
columnist - Organisations
- Georgetown University
National Public Radio
Membres
Critiques
Listes
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 29
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 1,417
- Popularité
- #18,147
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 46
- ISBN
- 15
historical backdrop and working its way toward the modern day, with a near-total US centric focus.
Once we get, roughly at midpoint, closer to the present era, the usual fault lines of this topic begin to emerge. As you would expect from a critic with a gig at NPR there is little second guessing when covering the impact of #MeToo cancellations - accusations is enough to warrant books being removed from publishing or shelves, under the neoliberal idea of "it's not censorship because we're allowed to determine what we stock or sell". However, in lectures about school boards "banning books" for content the ability to buy these banned books and read them isn't brought up as a counterpoint for why it's "not really censorship". The controversy over Critical Race Theory is given a lecture, and dismissed as the fevered imagining of conservatives, yet sprinkled throughout the critical theory (not CRT) assumptions about identity politics are assumed real and not critiqued at all. It's simply given as a fact.
Now to her credit, books being attacked from the left is actually brought up, such as in the context of banning Huck Finn for sensitivity reasons, or going after To Kill A Mockingbird. However, the defense of books turns toothless and pleading in this context, with a deference given to their positions, instead of a full throated defense of missing the whole point of said books. In other words, it's roughly what you'd expect.
The biggest omission from a book with this title though is the hard cases. Most of these controversies are kicking in open doors for book lovers. Al Quaeda propaganda, Mein Kampf, bomb making instructions, open access viral databases, there are a lot more book/information controversies with life and death stakes - worthy for inclusion next to comic books with gay sex scenes?… (plus d'informations)