Yes, Shakespeare’s play is banned in Arizona. § 15-112 prohibits courses and classes that “promote the overthrow of the United States government, promote resentment toward a race or class of people, are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group or advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.” So what books did they ban as a result? “The Tempest” for one. In the US, book bans in conservative areas are cropping up with alarming frequency, most egregiously in Arizona, where State Stature A.R.S. My friend is a prominent physicist, and so was given the courtesy of being able to finish the offending “bourgeoisie” novel before the secret police politely took it from him. During the apartheid years in South Africa, the young adult classic Black Beauty was banned simply for the combination of “black” and “beauty.” When there still was an East Germany, an East German friend of mine told me that he was given one of ten extant copies of a banned novel.
2023 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremonyīooks are continually banned around the world, mainly for political reasons, even if the “politics” are oblique or cosmetic.
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