Literature and the New Culture

Company

Library of Congress

Price

$19.95

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Official Store

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…