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Author : Nicholas J. Karolides
Publisher :
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Censorship
ISBN :
Literature suppressed on Political grounds.
Author : Nicholas J. Karolides
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0816071519
Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds, Revised Edition profiles the censorship of many such essential works of literature. The entries new to this edition include extensive coverage of the Harry Potter series, which has been frequently banned in the United States on the grounds that it promotes witchcraft, as well as entries on two popular textbook series, The Witches by Roald Dahl, Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran, and more. Also included are updates to such entries as The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie and On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
Author : Dawn B. Sova
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Censorship
ISBN :
Some 100 alphabetical entries describe the content and censorship history of fiction and nonfiction works banned because the authors or works did not conform to the social expectations or because they contained socially unacceptable ideas or speech. Several works, despite limited censorship histories, exhibit the lengths to which censors' fears will take them. Other works have extensive histories of censorship. Includes biographical profiles of authors. Part of a four-volume collection spotlighting some 400 works that have been censored for their political, social, religious, or erotic content, in the US and around the world, from Biblical times to the present. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Nicholas J. Karolides
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Censorship
ISBN :
Contains biographical profiles of authors.
Author : Margaret Bald
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 21,6 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816033065
Books challenged for religious content include "The Bible," "The Age of Reason," and "The Talmud."
Author : Nicholas Karolides
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1438149891
Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their assumptions or questioned their activities. Political suppression also occurs in the name of security and the safeguarding of official secrets and is often used as a weapon in larger cultural or political battles. Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds, Fourth Edition illustrates the extent and frequency of such censorship in nearly every form of writing. Entries include: Animal Farm (George Orwell) The Appointment (Herta Müller) Born on the Fourth of July (Ron Kovic) Burger's Daughter (Nadine Gordimer) Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak) The Fugitive (Pramoedya Anata Toer) Girls of Riyadh (Rajaa Alsanea) The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas) The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) Kiss of the Spider Woman (Manuel Puig) Manifesto of the Communist Party (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler) Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) Snow (Orhan Pamuk) The Struggle Is My Life (Nelson Mandela) The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien) The Vaněk Plays (Václav Havel) and more.
Author : Dawn B. Sova
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816071497
Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds, Revised Edition examines the issues underlying the suppression of more than 100 works deemed sexually obscene. The entries new to this edition include America by Jon Stewart, Sex by Madonna, The Buffalo Tree by Adam Rapp, and many more. Also included are updates to entries such as Forever by Judy Blume, and more
Author : Nicholas J. Karolides
Publisher : Checkmark Books
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780816060436
Presents summary and censorship accounts of books that have been banned throughout history for political, religious, sexual, and social reasons.
Author : Dawn B. Sova
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1438129939
An alphabetical listing of plays that have been banned throughout history with a short synopsis and reason for banning as well as profiles of the playwrights and other resource material.
Author : Nicholas J. Karolides
Publisher : Checkmark
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780816085194
"From the Bible to The Hate U Give: a completely updated look at the history of censorship in world literature. Throughout history, nations, peoples, and governments have censored writers and their works on political, religious, sexual, and social grounds. Although the literary merit of the majority of these books has been proven time and time again, censorship efforts are still in place today. From Animal Farm to The Grapes of Wrath, The Koran to The Talmud, Beloved to the Harry Potter series, The Canterbury Tales to Catch-22, this revised edition examines the many struggles these books faced in order to be read"--