Holden's Hold on the Censors

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2011-10-01

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Ami E. Stearns

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Abstract

J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye has been on bookshelves since the 1950s—and its presence there has been protested for almost as long. This review explores why that Holden Caulfield can still elicit such social opprobrium in a new millennium.

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Ami E. Stearns, Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, censorship, symbolic politics, literature

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Stearns, A. E. (2011). Holden’s Hold on the Censors. Contexts, 10(4), 66-67. doi: 10.1177/1536504211427876

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http://hdl.handle.net/11244/25419

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10.1177/1536504211427876

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