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Direct linkBoyd, Fenice B.; Bailey, Nancy M. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2009
Censorship is about restriction and control of intellectual development, and the danger when educators fail to investigate what censorship truly means--for example, by attaching it to metaphors with abundant entailments--is that people will merely "shrug off" the removal of books from libraries and classrooms and fail to see challenges…
Descriptors: Censorship, Figurative Language, Books, Novels
