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Banned Books by Ideal Bookshelf

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[uispecialcollections]

With Banned Book Week fast approaching, our Reading Room has gotten a new exhibit featuring banned and challenged books from our collections. We thought we would put some of our favorites out for everyone to see. (Books from the Victoria E. Mitchell and Jon Gustafson Collection on Science Fiction and the Stonewall Collection)

[uponthepages]

uponthepages: Books You Probably Didn't Know Are Banned

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Did you know these books are banned? #BannedBooksWeek

[woodlibraryteens]

Celebrate your right to read! This week is Banned Book Week, stop by our lobby display or go up to the Teen Scene and check out our banned graphic novels display. #bannedbookweek #celebrateyourrighttoread (at Wood Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoMSAcmD8ws/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5o9g15l7sm6t

[rachelteaa]

It’s banned books week! Here are two of my favorite books, both which have been challenged because their content. So, this week especially, let’s appreciate/celebrate our intellectual freedom and right to read. (at Ohio)

[uncgarchives]

For #WonderfulBooksWednesday we’re featuring our copy of the first American edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1934) as part of Banned and Challenged Books Week.  

From ALA’s site : http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics/reasons

Ulysses, by James Joyce

Burned in the U.S. (1918), Ireland (1922), Canada (1922), England (1923) and banned in England (1929).

Brittanica,com goes into more depth regarding what caused the book to be banned: https://www.britannica.com/list/8-banned-books-through-time

Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce

James Joyce’s Ulysses has tiptoed the line between obscene and genius since its serial publication in 1918–20. The novel—which chronicles the day of struggling artist Stephen Dedalus, Jewish ad man Leopold Bloom, and Leopold’s cuckolding wife Molly Bloom—was met simultaneously with approbation by Joyce’s Modernist contemporaries, such as Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound, and disdain by antiobscenity advocates in English-speaking countries. Committees in the United States such as the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice successfully worked toward the banning of Ulysses after an excerpt in which the main character pleasured himself was published. It was thus considered contraband in America for over a decade until the landmark obscenity court case United States v. One Book Called Ulysses in 1933 lifted the ban. The United Kingdom similarly banned the novel until the mid-1930s for its explicit sexuality and graphic depiction of bodily functions. Australia, however, enforced the novel’s suppression on-and-off from its publication until the mid-1950s, as a former customs minister claimed that “[Ulysses] holds up to ridicule the Creator and the Church … Such books might vitally affect the standard of Australian home life. It cannot be tolerated in Australia any longer.” Although some may presently view the book as obscene and unfit for public reading, universities across the globe hold Ulysses in the highest esteem for its deft display of stream-of-consciousness as well as its meticulously structured plot that intertwines various themes about the struggles of the “Modern Man.”

[antikripkean]

Oh my gosh...

I just realized that Milo's Free Speech Week is the same week as Banned Books Week. This is perfect.

[gla1101]

Banned Books Week

I just supported Banned Books Week on @ThunderclapIt // @OIF

I just supported Banned Books Week on @ThunderclapIt // @OIF