{"id":7359,"date":"2018-09-21T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/?p=7359"},"modified":"2018-09-18T13:06:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T19:06:43","slug":"banning-books-silences-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2018\/09\/21\/banning-books-silences-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning Books Silences Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s your story? Could you imagine yourself at Hogwarts? Did you devour the Hunger Games<\/em>? Maybe you read Anne Frank\u2019s Diary of a Young Girl<\/em> and found yourself imagining what her life must have been like? Could you imagine no longer having access to these books because a member of your community decided they were too dangerous, and should be removed from the library? Harry Potter<\/em>? Too violent, anti-family, and has \u201ca serious tone of death, hate, lack of respect, and sheer evil.\u201d Hunger Games<\/em>? Numbs students to violence. And Anne Frank? \u201cPornographic\u201d and \u201ca real downer.\u201d (Doyle 278, 134, 163)<\/span><\/p>\n

Banning books silences stories. Literature provides us not only with pleasure, but with a safe place to explore ideas and connect with people and worlds we can only imagine. It also provides us with an opportunity to connect with our\u00a0<\/span>own identities and answer questions for ourselves. <\/span><\/p>\n

Last year, the American Library Association recorded 354 challenges to materials<\/a>. Thanks to th<\/span>e commitment of librarians, teachers, parents, and students most challenges are unsuccessful and materials remain available. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Celebrate your freedom to read and share stories with the DePaul Univeristy Library and the Writing Center<\/a> during Banned Books Week.<\/a> Listen to us on SCRAWL<\/a>, look for the UCWbL\u2019<\/a>s info tables and join us both on Friday, September 28 at 1:00pm for Books on the Chopping Block<\/a> with City Lit Theater Company. This one hour performance of excerpts from 2017\u2019s top ten list of banned and challenged books and will be followed by refreshments, Q&A, and \u00a0chance to win one of four \u201cbanned\u201d bo<\/span>oks! Come a little bit early to learn more about the history of banned books week and make a button featuring the cover of a favorite banned book.<\/span><\/p>\n

See our research guide<\/a> or work with our research help staff<\/a> to learn more about banned and challenged materials.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Doyle, Robert P.\u00a0Banned Books : Challenging Our Freedom to Read<\/i><\/a>. [Updated and expanded 2014 ed.] ed., American Library Association, 2014.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s your story? Could you imagine yourself at Hogwarts? Did you devour the Hunger Games? Maybe you read Anne Frank\u2019s Diary of a Young Girl and found yourself imagining what her life must have been like? Could you imagine no longer having access to these books because a member of your community decided they were <\/p>\n

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