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11 Dec 2008 05:39 pm
Girl, Bowdlerized
by Chris Bodenner
A censorship scandal at a Westchester high school taught me a new word:
Pages from the middle of the book [Girl, Interrupted] have been torn out by the school
district after having been deemed "inappropriate" by school officials
due to sexual content and strong language. ... "[But] since the book has other redeeming
features, we took the liberty of bowdlerizing," [said the English Dept. chair].
"Bowdlerizing is a particularly disturbing form of censorship since it
not only suppresses specific content deemed 'objectionable,' but also
does violence to the work by removing material that the author thought
integral," said Joan Bertin, Executive Director of the National
Coalition Against Censorship. "It is a kind of literary fraud
perpetrated on an unsuspecting audience."
(Hat tip: Crooks And Liars)
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