Literature and the New Culture Wars

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Triggers, Cancel Culture, and the Teacher's Dilemma

By Deborah Appleman

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Literature and the New Culture Wars by Deborah Appleman explores the contentious landscape surrounding the teaching of literature in contemporary society. The book delves into the challenges educators face in an era of polarised cultural and political climates, highlighting the importance and impact of teaching diverse literary works. Appleman advocates for a thoughtful and courageous approach to literature that respects differing viewpoints while fostering critical thinking and empathy among students.
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This book may appeal to you if you're interested in understanding how literature can be a powerful tool for engaging with contemporary cultural debates. It offers insights into how literary texts can foster critical thinking and empathy, making it a valuable read for educators and those passionate about the intersection of literature and education.

Can educators continue to teach troubling but worthwhile texts?

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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 cancelled—school reading lists are rapidly shrinking. For many teachers, choosing which books to include in their curriculum has become an agonising task with political, professional, and ethical dimensions.

Literature and the New Culture Wars by 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.

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Literature and the New Culture Wars is praised for encouraging educators to teach literature that resonates with contemporary world events, acknowledges historical contexts, and inspires hopes for a just future. The book is celebrated for honouring the educators who undertake this essential task.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781324019183

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 06 September 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 122.0mm

Height: 193.0mm

Weight: 245g

Pages: 192

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About the Author

Deborah Appleman is the Hollis L. Caswell professor of educational studies and director of the Summer Writing Program at Carleton College. Professor Appleman’s recent research has focused on teaching college-level language and literature courses at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater for inmates who are interested in pursuing post-secondary education. She is also the author of Reading for Themselves: How to Transform Adolescents into Lifelong Readers Through Out-of-Class Book Clubs, Teaching Literature to Adolescents, Critical Encounters in High School English: Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents, Braided Lives: An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing, Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading, and Reading Better, Reading Smarter: Designing Literature lessons for Adolescents, co-authored with Michael Graves.