Bibliograph

Literature and the new culture wars, triggers, cancel culture, and the teacher's dilemma, Deborah Appleman

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Literature and the new culture wars, triggers, cancel culture, and the teacher's dilemma, Deborah Appleman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Literature and the new culture wars

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1294285589

Responsibility statement

Deborah Appleman

Series statement

Norton books in education

Sub title

triggers, cancel culture, and the teacher's dilemma

Summary

"Can educators continue to teach troubling but worthwhile texts? 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"--, Provided by publisher

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