{"product_id":"triggered-literature-john-sutherland-9781785908170","title":"Triggered Literature: Cancellation, Stealth Censorship and Cultural Warfare","description":"'Triggering'. When and where did the usage\u003cbr\u003eoriginate? No one is sure. There is, however, clear connection with the\u003cbr\u003epsychiatric term 'trauma trigger' - stimuli which can detonate unhealed wounds.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe concept of triggering took off in\u003cbr\u003efeminist magazines and social media 'chat' around 2010. Around 2013\/14 it moved, \u003cbr\u003ewholesale, into higher education. In May 2014, the\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ereported\u003cbr\u003ethat at scores of institutions student bodies were demanding trigger warnings\u003cbr\u003ein their courses for canonical texts. It reached a floodmark with a survey by\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e of London in August 2022 which found that British universities\u003cbr\u003ehad covertly added trigger warnings to over a thousand texts, including the\u003cbr\u003eworks of literary greats such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Jane\u003cbr\u003eAusten, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens and Agatha Christie.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePoliticians in the US, UK and Australia\u003cbr\u003evilifies triggering with the sarcasms 'wokery' and 'snowflakery'. What is\u003cbr\u003eoverlooked in the heat of the argument is that triggering is categorically\u003cbr\u003edifferent from traditional institutional controls on literature. Triggering, \u003cbr\u003edone responsibly, honours the fact that great literature is great because it\u003cbr\u003eis, as Kafka says, powerful.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this extraordinary polemic, John\u003cbr\u003eSutherland - former Visiting Professor of Literature at the\u003cbr\u003eCalifornia Institute of Technology - takes a wide-ranging and characteristically\u003cbr\u003enuanced look at the history of triggering and censorship in literature and\u003cbr\u003eshows how it has become a theatre of culture warfare. Politicians in the great\u003cbr\u003esectors of the English-speaking world have taken up arms in that conflict.\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Swift's 'Battle of the Books' has flared up again. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Sutherland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1785908170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781785908170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Biteback Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"John Sutherland","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44966235635967,"sku":"9781785908170","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9535c0e3-2026-4a39-8fbb-ceed4c0510c9.jpg?v=1711159264","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/triggered-literature-john-sutherland-9781785908170","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}