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"Can educators continue to teach troubling but worthwhile texts? Our current ""culture wars"" have reshaped the politics of secondary literature instruction. Due to a variety of challenges from both the left and the right--to language or subject matter, to potentially triggering content, or to authors who have been canceled--school reading lists are rapidly shrinking. For many teachers, choosing which books to include in their curriculum has become an agonizing task with political, professional, and ethical dimensions. In Literature and the New Culture Wars, Deborah Appleman calls for a reacknowledgment of the intellectual and affective work that literature can do, and offers ways to continue to teach troubling texts without doing harm. Rather than banishing challenged texts from our classrooms, she writes, we should be confronting and teaching the controversies they invoke. Her book is a timely and eloquent argument for a reasoned approach to determining what literature still deserves to be read and taught and discussed."

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"Deborah Appleman lives in Minnesota and is the Hollis L. Caswell Professor of Educational Studies and director of the summer writing program at Carleton College. Since 2007, she has taught language, literature, and creative writing courses at a high-security prison for men in the upper Midwest. Cathi Colas is an audiobook narrator with a ton of life experience behind her. She brings that experience to create a true air of authenticity to all her narrations. She has over fifty audiobooks out there in the world. She also works as an audiobook coach and home studio consultant for Suchavoice, a voice-over training and demo production company. Cathi worked in ""military intelligence"" for the United States Air Force back in the day of the dinosaur. She was a drummer in a band for years. She taught yoga to the masses. However, for her, storytelling has been the best gig yet and she puts everything she has into every book she narrates. When she isn't narrating, coaching, or editing, she rides horses up in the foothills of Colorado."

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