Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | |
Prologue: How to Be Obscene | |
Perspectives: Censorship by Omission and Commission | p. 1 |
On Censorship | p. 3 |
Blackballing | p. 11 |
Not Laughable, But Lethal | p. 19 |
Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry | p. 25 |
White-outs and Black-outs on the Book Shelves | p. 32 |
"Shut Not Your Doors": An Author Looks at Censorship | p. 41 |
Challenging Books | p. 49 |
A Rationale for Teaching Huckleberry Finn | p. 51 |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Review of Historical Challenges | p. 61 |
Annie Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl | p. 72 |
Anne on My Mind by Nancy Garden | p. 80 |
In Defense of: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Deenie, and Blubber - Three Novels by Judy Blume | p. 87 |
The Bible: Source of Great Literature and Controversy | p. 98 |
The Bible and the Constitution | p. 103 |
Black Boy (American Hunger): Freedom to Remember | p. 109 |
Black Like Me: In Defense of a Racial Reality | p. 117 |
Bless the Beasts and Children by Clendon Swarthout | p. 125 |
The Relevance of Brave New World | p. 130 |
Huxley's Brave New World as Social Irritant: Ban It or Buy It? | p. 136 |
"Alas, alas, That ever love was sin!" Marriages Moral and Immoral in Chaucer | p. 144 |
If You Want to Know the Truth...:The Catcher in the Rye | p. 159 |
Fighting Words in and over Catch-22 | p. 167 |
"They tell you to do your own thing, but they don't mean it.": Censorship and The Chocolate War | p. 179 |
Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange | p. 185 |
She's Just Too Womanish for Them: Alice Walker and The Color Purple | p. 191 |
Fueling the Fire of Hell: A Reply to Censors of The Crucible | p. 201 |
Death of a Salesman: An American Classic | p. 209 |
The Debate in Literary Consciousness: Dickey's Deliverance | p. 220 |
"Messing up the minds of the citizenry en route": Essential Questions of Value in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test | p. 226 |
A Farewell to Arms | p. 237 |
A Defense of A Farewell to Arms | p. 243 |
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes | p. 249 |
"If we cannot trust..." The Pertinence of Judy Blume's Forever | p. 256 |
"Whatsoever things are pure..." A Case for Go Ask Alice | p. 261 |
An Apologia for Pearl Buck's The Good Earth | p. 268 |
The Grapes of Wrath: Preserving Its Place in the Curriculum | p. 278 |
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich: A Rationale for Classroom Use | p. 288 |
If Beale Street Could Talk: A Rationale for Classroom Use | p. 294 |
Maya Angelou Is Three Writers: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | p. 299 |
Learning to Live: When the Bird Breaks from the Cage | p. 306 |
The Stop of Truth: In the Night Kitchen | p. 317 |
It's OK If You Don't Love Me: Evaluating Anticipated Experiences of Readers | p. 322 |
Johnny Got His Gun: A Depression Era Classic | p. 331 |
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George | p. 338 |
Gordon Parks' The Learning Tree: Autobiography and Education | p. 343 |
Teaching Rationale for William Golding's Lord of the Flies | p. 351 |
Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" | p. 358 |
Manchild in a World Where You Just Might Make It: Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land | p. 363 |
Reflections on "The Shylock Problem" | p. 370 |
Supporting Traditional Values: My Darling, My Hamburger | p. 379 |
Why Nineteen Eighty-Four Should Be Read and Taught | p. 382 |
A Teachable Good Book: Of Mice and Men | p. 388 |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | p. 395 |
Moby Dick vs. Big Nurse: A Feminist Defense of a Misogynist Text: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | p. 398 |
Threshold Literature: A Discussion of Ordinary People | p. 414 |
In Defense of Our Bodies, Ourselves | p. 424 |
A Look Inside a Landmark: The Outsiders | p. 431 |
Is Run, Shelley, Run Worth Fighting For? | p. 442 |
Penance and Repentance in The Scarlet Letter | p. 449 |
A Rationale for Reading John Knowles' A Separate Peace | p. 456 |
Authenticity and Relevance: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five | p. 464 |
Censoring Judy Blume and Then Again, Maybe I Won't | p. 471 |
In Defense of To Kill a Mockingbird | p. 476 |
Finding Humor and Value in Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic | p. 485 |
About the Contributors | p. 490 |
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