Description
Pulitzer Prize Nominated Winner of the 1993 PEN/Newmans Own First Amendment Award for Claudia Johnsons extraordinary efforts to restore banned literary classics from Florida classrooms. Part memoir, part courtroom drama, and part primer for advocates fighting assaults on free speech, Stifled Laughter is the story of one womans efforts to restore literary classics to the classrooms of rural north Florida. Updated with a new introduction, Johnsons honest, often hilarious, first-person account of censorship in its modern form provides valuable insight into why the books children read at school remains a controversial issue, and why free speech in America remains a precarious right. Johnson fights tirelessly to keep texts like Lysistrata and The Millers Tale in Florida school textbooks regardless of a preachers efforts to take them out. Readers are given a glimpse into the courtroom and all the drama, passion, and hard work that follows. Johnsons writing is witty, emotional, and humorous, and it makes you want to jump in and fight censorship and book banning right alongside her. For anyone who has ever wondered just how far those who seek to ban books will go in limiting free expression, this book proves once again that the personal is political. At a time when book banning has reached new heights, parents and teachers, writers, and readers will all benefit from Johnsons experience and be touched by her spirit and courage.
Author: Claudia Johnson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Published: 03/14/2023
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.04w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781682753491
Language: English
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