Amboy Dukes and other banned works

[David Bowie]

From:    Doug_Harris <cats22 at STNY.RR.COM>

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> Checking on its date, when I type 'Amboy Dukes" into a title search
> in Harvard's catalog, it comes up with just two items: that and
> something titled _Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds_, by Dawn
> B. Sova (Facts on File, 2006).  The Harvard catalog seems to list all
> the titles it discusses -- which also include "Catcher", but some
> mystifying titles as well, such as _The Adventures of Sherlock
> Holmes_,._The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin_, _James and the
> Giant Peach_, and the _Doctor Doolittle_ series and _Gorilla in the
> Mist_.  (The last two must be there because of their uppity,
> intelligent animals.*)

_Gorillas in the Mist_ due to at least semi-explicit mentions of mating,
i'd have to think.

_Doctor Doolittle_ and _James and the Giant Peach_ seem odder to me, but
they feature sometimes-explicit challenges to authority.

Hey! Maybe those books can get this thread to merge with the "uppity"
thread, since _James_ has a main character who thinks he knows more than
his station as the child nephew would allow...

--
David Bowie                               University of Central Florida
     Jeanne's Two Laws of Chocolate: If there is no chocolate in the
     house, there is too little; some must be purchased. If there is
     chocolate in the house, there is too much; it must be consumed.

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