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Publishers, authors fight against book censorship. Book banning has united some of the largest publishing houses in the U.S. In August, Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, ...
Herbert Foerstel, the author of Banned in the U.S.A., a book documenting the cases of censorship in the United States, states that "the censors claim to be protecting the young and impressionable from this tragic tale of crude heroes speaking vulgar language within a setting that implies criticism of our social system."
The Irish Censorship of Publications Board was not obliged to reveal its reason but it is believed that it was rejected for its critique of Irish republicanism and the Catholic Church, and its depiction of adolescent sexuality. [17] The Country Girls: Edna O'Brien: 1960 Novel Banned by Ireland's censorship board in 1960 for its explicit sexual ...
The censorship of such writings was legalized under the institution of the 1950 Suppression of Communism Act. This act was the government's tool to refute any anti-government propaganda being released against the Apartheid, allowing the works of any person who had left the country or who was considered to have acted against the state to be ...
Story at a glance More than 1,600 individual book titles have been banned from school classrooms or libraries over the past year, according to PEN America, a nonprofit that advocates for freedom ...
The Hate U Give: Angie Thomas: Profanity, violence, "thought to promote an anti-police message and indoctrination of a social agenda 2017 30 — — Heather Has Two Mommies: Lesléa Newman: Homosexuality 1989 87 — 9 His Dark Materials (series) Philip Pullman: Political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, violence 1995–2000 — 8 — The Holy ...
According to PEN America's annual book-banning report, restrictions on books have increased 33% since last year, but students offer a glimmer of hope.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn [a] [b] ⓘ (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) [6] [7] was a Russian author and Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system.