Burn This Book by Toni Morrison
PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word
A compact, passionate meditation on censorship and the cultural forces that seek to silence writers and erase histories. Through sharp essays and speeches it traces historical and contemporary attempts to ban or destroy books, examines the motives behind such attacks, and defends literature as essential to empathy, memory, and democratic life. The work insists that burning books—literal or figurative—is an effort to limit how people think and remembers, and urges readers and writers to resist by preserving stories, speaking inconvenient truths, and protecting intellectual freedom.
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- 2009
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- American
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- Original Language
- English
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