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I have a dream: that books be set free!

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dc.contributor.authorMartins, Cláudia
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-17T14:24:24Z
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dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractMartin Luther King Jr.’s dream revolved around equality among people with different skin colours and cultural backgrounds in mainstream white America. Despite this, the underlying motivation was freedom: freedom of speech, of thought, of expression, of movement, freedom to access education, libraries and books. However, books have always been at the heart of freedom-restricting, authoritarian, dictatorial, alas, irrational regimes. From a historical perspective, we can refer to numerous events where people’s access to information was to be limited (Eliot & Rose, 2007). Such examples are: the burning of Confucius’s books by Qin Shi Huang in the 3rd c. BCE or of the Library of Alexandria by Caliph Omar in 642 CE (Freedom to Read, online, s.d.), but, fast-forwarding to the 20th century, we have the Nazi book-burnings (Lewy, 2016) and, even more recently, restrictions in the access to social media. These cases provide us with the background against which I aim to discuss a current trend called “banned books” in the USA, according to which certain US states forbid specific books from being read, analysed and discussed at schools and their presence in the respective libraries (ALA, 2021). In my presentation, I will seek to put forth examples of banned books in the USA, from literature classics to more contemporary ones, and identify the reasons for their ban. Ultimately, attention must be paid to the awareness movement developed by a coalition of organisations, among which the American Library Association, which celebrate yearly the Banned Books Week since 1982 and pinpoint the books that were targeted by this anti-democratic decision to censor people’s freedom to leisurable and varied readings.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationMartins, Cláudia (2021). I have a dream: that books be set free! In Alexia Dotras Bravo; Ana Maria Alves; Cláudia Martins; Dominique Guillemin; Elisabete Mendes Silva; Isabel Chumbo. (Eds.) IV Colóquio Internacional de Línguas Estrangeiras: Livro de Resumos. Bragançapt_PT
dc.identifier.isbn978-972-745-297-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/24680
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherInstituto Politécnico de Bragançapt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectFreedom of educationpt_PT
dc.subjectFreedom of informationpt_PT
dc.subjectCensorshippt_PT
dc.subjectBook burningspt_PT
dc.subjectBanned bookspt_PT
dc.titleI have a dream: that books be set free!pt_PT
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oaire.citation.titleIV Colóquio Internacional de Línguas Estrangeiras: Livro de Resumospt_PT
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person.givenNameCláudia
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