Literature and the New Culture Wars

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Can educators continue to teach troubling but worthwhile texts? This is an invigorating call for educators ‘to continue to teach challenging texts.’ Now more than ever, educators need to feel encouraged and empowered to teach literature that reflects what is happening in the world today, that acknowledges and reckons with the past, and that enlivens hope for an equitable and just future. is the book that honors and makes visible those educators doing this necessary work. If I could buy just one book for every English teacher in America at this time, it would be this one. You need this book and need it now. Deborah Appleman is one of the legendary mentors of our profession. Her latest and perhaps most courageous book arrives at the right moment to rescue literary education in American schools from the anti-literate, parochial, and self-righteous censors from across the political spectrum, who don’t begin to understand that the function of literature is to awaken our sense of outrage and empathy, trouble our platitudes, and arouse us to moral action. US