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Writing a Rationale for a Controversial Common Reading Book: Alice Walker's "The Color Purple."
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Worthington, Pepper – English Journal, 1985
Offers a rationale that can be used to defend the assignment of Alice Walker's controversial novel for class reading. Indicates four issues that might evoke calls for censorship: (1) subject matter, (2) vocabulary, (3) grammar, and (4) the epistolary form of the work. (RBW)
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