Maureen Corrigan
Autor de Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Sobre El Autor
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.
Obras de Maureen Corrigan
Canceled Authors 1 copia
The Textbook Wars 1 copia
New Kids’ Books, Old Objections 1 copia
Authors Who Censor Themselves 1 copia
Allen Ginsberg’s Alerming “Howl” 1 copia
Anthony Comstock's Moral Crusade 1 copia
Ulysses on Trial 1 copia
Bowdlerizing the Bard 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Contribuidor — 389 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Corrigan, Maureen
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1954-11-16
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Educación
- Fordham University
University of Pennsylvania - Ocupaciones
- Lecturer and critic in residence, Georgetown University
book critic
columnist - Organizaciones
- Georgetown University
National Public Radio
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 29
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 1,416
- Popularidad
- #18,163
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 46
- ISBNs
- 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?… (más)