In the world of book, censorship is printed, by Jean-Baptiste del Amo-Liberation
On the occasion of the Paris Book Festival on April 11, 12 and 13, our journalists give way to authors for this 18th edition of the Libe of the writer. Find all the articles here.
A month before the election of Trump, when I was in Texas, I entered a small bookstore in Alpine, a town of just over 6,000 inhabitants located in the county of Brewster. Approaching the presidential election, in this Swing County Where the electoral margins are often tight, the banners and supports of support for the two main candidates were numerous, with a clear advantage for those of republican supporters.
I was therefore all the more surprised, by browsing the shelves of the bookstore, by the audacity of a selection which proposed feminist books, queer authors, testimonies and testimonies on Mexican immigration, the ecology of the region and the history of the American natives.
The Democrats were still in power and we were a few months before the wave of censorship orchestrated since by the American administration, prohibiting or limiting the use of hundreds of words and phrases, among which: inclusion, anti -racism, black, climate crisis, cultural differences, woman, feminism, gender, Hispanic minority, immigrants, lgbtq, pollution, transgender, transsexual.
But a movement of censorship struck
