Banned Books Week
Banned Books Week is back. They have a new name for the new millennium. You can see a list of 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000. Three of Stephen King's novels appear in the top 100. Now that's scary! According to the American Library Association, "The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom does not claim comprehensiveness in recording challenges. Research suggests that for each challenge reported there are as many as four or five which go unreported."I'm not certain, however, that I can go along with Judy Blume, who says, "[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers."A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials. Challenges do not simply involve a person expressing a point of view; rather, they are an attempt to remove material from the curriculum or library, thereby restricting the access of others.
Would you refrain from writing a book becaue you feared censorship? If so, why? And are any books actually banned from U.S. libraries?
posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 4:47 PM
1 Comments:
As a writer of lesbian fiction, I tend to shy away from confrontation in public about what I write. I have several children's book ideas in my head and while I will write them for my neice and nephew, I don't know if I would actually submit them for publication to a mainstream publisher.
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