Just a quick FYI: we missed it, but last week (September 27 - October 4) was national Banned Books Week, an annual project sponsored by the American Library Association. Just in case you need further cause to probe the ramifications of ideology upon the workings of the superstructure, check out the ALA's Banned Books Week website. And, while you're at it, for a quick overview of veep nominee Sarah Palin's attempts to ban books during her tenure as the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, check out The Nation's discussion of the subject.
And stick to ol' Mr. Comstock the next time you check out a copy of Ulysses, or Invisible Man, or, heaven forbid, Harry freaking Potter!
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I feel like it raised the stakes for Harry once he had been banned. It lends him more bad-ass-ness. (I recall a woman at Target at the Waterfront chastising me for buying several of the books and saying how she never would let her children read them and I thought, would you chastise me for buying Peter Pan or Sleeping Beauty?)
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