TY  - BOOK
AU  - Appleman,Deborah
TI  - Literature and the new culture wars: triggers, cancel culture, and the teacher's dilemma 
T2  - Norton books in education
SN  - 9781324019183
AV  - PN59 .A66 2022
U1  - 807.12 23/eng/20220914
KW  - Literature
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Critical thinking
KW  - Challenged books
KW  - Prohibited books
KW  - Literature teachers
KW  - Training of
KW  - Literature and society
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right" -- Authors in peril: cancel culture and #MeToo -- Trigger-happy -- Wakening to woke -- Troubled texts: to teach or not to teach -- Conclusion: teaching literature and the new culture wars
N2  - "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"--
ER  -