{"id":6286,"date":"2011-06-03T08:22:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T15:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6286"},"modified":"2011-06-03T08:38:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T15:38:31","slug":"banned-book-news-roundup-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6286","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Parthenon of Books\/Homage to Democracy, Buenos Aires, December 1983, by Marta Minuj\u00edn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What’s interesting about the conceptual sculpture in the photo is that it was made of books that had been banned by Argentina’s recently-overthrown junta.\u00a0 The sculpture stood in a downtown Buenos Aires square for three weeks, after which the public was invited to dismantle it … and keep the books.\u00a0 How cool is that?\u00a0 More info here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are some interesting graphs from the American Library Association<\/a>, breaking out in visual form book challenges by year, reason, initiator, and institution.<\/p>\n

I’ve linked to so many newspaper articles about parents challenging books on school reading lists, I’m almost ready to give up.\u00a0 They just keep coming.\u00a0 This one stands out, though, because it goes into such detail.\u00a0 It’s from Canada, and involves a parental challenge to Timothy Findley’s The Wars<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I started a personal banned books project<\/a> in 2009, reading & reviewing famous banned books I hadn’t previously read.\u00a0 I recently several volumes to my to-read list, a mixture of adult and young adult books that have been the subject of parental challenges at schools around the country.\u00a0 Over the next year or so I’ll be reading and reviewing these:<\/p>\n