Roald Dahl (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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Although Dahl was one of the world’s most successful children’s authors, parental critics have charged that his books revelled in vulgarity and cruelty. Criticism of his books has come from both the Right and the Left, as well as from other ideological factions. Feminists, for example, have denounced The Witches (1983) for its unflattering portrayals of women, while Christian Fundamentalists have attacked the book out of fear that it will entice impressionable children into the occult. Dahl’s private opinions—especially anti-Semitism expressed in...
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