![]() ![]() ![]() And when we hear things like 'there is pornographic content in school libraries,' what we're really hearing is engagement with human experience, such as sexual experience - we're hearing that being portrayed as pornographic. ![]() And in many ways, what book banners in the present moment are suggesting is that literature that honestly engages human experience is somehow inappropriate for teenagers. And so I think that Out of Darkness is literature. it's not to be provocative or to distress anyone, but because when we want to write about human experience honestly and completely, we have to include the pain of being a person. And as a literature professor myself, I can tell you that literature from the Bible to Chaucer to Shakespeare to Faulkner deals with difficult topics because those aspects of life are the materials literature. Out of Darkness, like many works of literature, engages with all kinds of aspects of human experience. On writing about the human experience, even the hard parts ![]()
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