"Not Censorship but Selection": Censorship and/as Prizing
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2009
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| author | Kidd, Kenneth |
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| contents | "Not Censorship but Selection": Censorship and/as Prizing Kidd, Kenneth Censorship Librarians Library Materials Books Criticism Attitudes Awards This essay calls for a fresh critical approach to the topic of censorship, suggesting that anticensorship efforts, while important and necessary, function much like literary prizing. The analysis draws especially on James English's recent study "The Economy of Prestige." There are two central arguments: first, that the librarian ethic of "selection"--introduced by Lester Asheim in 1953 as a counterpoint to censorship--has contributed to the unfortunate construction of the censor as a "moron"; and second, that anticensorship efforts more generally tend toward uncritical canon-making, attributing value to books simply because they've been censored or (more typically) challenged. |
| format | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| id | eric_EJ849363 |
| institution | ERIC Institute of Education Sciences |
| language | en |
| publishDate | 2009 |
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| spellingShingle | "Not Censorship but Selection": Censorship and/as Prizing Kidd, Kenneth Censorship Librarians Library Materials Books Criticism Attitudes Awards "Not Censorship but Selection": Censorship and/as Prizing Kidd, Kenneth Censorship Librarians Library Materials Books Criticism Attitudes Awards This essay calls for a fresh critical approach to the topic of censorship, suggesting that anticensorship efforts, while important and necessary, function much like literary prizing. The analysis draws especially on James English's recent study "The Economy of Prestige." There are two central arguments: first, that the librarian ethic of "selection"--introduced by Lester Asheim in 1953 as a counterpoint to censorship--has contributed to the unfortunate construction of the censor as a "moron"; and second, that anticensorship efforts more generally tend toward uncritical canon-making, attributing value to books simply because they've been censored or (more typically) challenged. |
| title | "Not Censorship but Selection": Censorship and/as Prizing |
| topic | Censorship Librarians Library Materials Books Criticism Attitudes Awards |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ849363 |