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Chargement... Stifled Laughter: One Woman's Story About Fighting Censorshippar Claudia Johnson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Claudia tells of her trials of fighting censorship in schools in the 1980s. I got frustrated with the Christian views, but her story was well told with interweavings of her personal life throughout. ( ) Very readable and interesting but perhaps just a tad self-congratulating for being on the "right" side of the censorship issue. The book gives a real life taste of the conflict -- on one side stand people who know what they don't want their kids reading in high school, and and on the other side stand people who see the link between banning books and stifling a student's growth into a thinking, analytical adult. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Part memoir, part courtroom drama, part primer for fighting assaults on free speech, Stifled Laughter, the revised edition, is the story of one woman's efforts to restore literary classics to the classrooms of rural north Florida. In 2021, 1,500 books were banned in the United States. More than any other year previously recorded. Johnson's honest, often hilarious, first-person account of censorship in its modern form provides valuable insight into why what our children read at school remains a controversial issue, and why free speech in America remains a precarious right. For anyone who has ever wondered just how far the religious right will go in limiting free expression, this book proves once again that the personal is political. Parents and teachers, writers and readers-all will benefit from Johnson's experience and all will be touched by her spirit"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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