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Re: NYTimes.com: As Classic Novels Get Revised for Toda y’s Readers, a Debate About Where to Draw the Line
- To: heather Howard <http://www.gmail.com/~hhoward40>, Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>, Vera <http://www.stanford.edu/~vshapir>
- Subject: Re: NYTimes.com: As Classic Novels Get Revised for Toda y’s Readers, a Debate About Where to Draw the Line
- From: Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
- Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 12:27:36 -0700
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Are they going to remove the N-word from Twain novels? Seems like that's
a disservice to the original text. Context is everything, is it not?
> From: heather Howard <http://www.gmail.com/~hhoward40>
> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 09:02:02 -0700
>
> Not sure how I feel about this.
>
> Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you
> can read it through this gift link without a subscription.
>
> As Classic Novels Get Revised for Today’s Readers, a Debate About Where to
> Draw the Line
>
> Agatha Christie. Roald Dahl. Ian Fleming. Classics are being reworked to remove
> offensive language. But some readers wonder, when does posthumous editing go
> too far?
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/03/books/classic-novels-revisions-agatha-christie-roald-dahl.html?unlocked_article_code=BmGXqyHqfNff6J-1E2ZpLq4q6JVpVCsICV4M8rwsnmVhsNvH1OLlh5Usjy-uN7tkk9a3g9OSiyVrRwrE9e1TA_N993RXbMRop8_1xnM5R11oJuiwdBuET2WBjhDvF6lbWsWyT1vO5SIgmiVRHKyoF9eeHe7y632-VwF7G4OQ9gaozCHeS8hLaLYUd7bgzyHBTwTYZ9zPgriYNoZ8vFWLyJZ0zULxQf_btMBLI6cyNyAMJR8FEs7Re1E_TuZ-BvRUidgT6p5gcsx5uMdMquCV5knHL9--26lPgBI1qE5KQbVsmDy3xTqVGLhB6uZJvY0ETUQd_6xxznj1xTDqYpAIaB5lCLXmu0BFGvIQKLMZ17No5sXn7hcY0np5TA&smid=em-share