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|year=2012 | |||
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|artist=Chuck Palaniuk | |||
|subject=Explicit Sexuality | |subject=Explicit Sexuality | ||
|confronting_bodies=Parents | |||
|medium=Literature | |medium=Literature | ||
|date_of_action=November 28, 2012 | |||
|location=Katy, Texas | |||
|description_of_content=Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia. Inspired by his doctor's exasperated remark that insomnia is not suffering, he finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups. Then he meets a mysterious man named Tyler Durden and establishes an underground fighting club as radical psychotherapy. | |description_of_content=Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia. Inspired by his doctor's exasperated remark that insomnia is not suffering, he finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups. Then he meets a mysterious man named Tyler Durden and establishes an underground fighting club as radical psychotherapy. | ||
|description_of_incident=Due to scenes involving sex between two of the novel's main characters, parents in the Katy school system lobbied to have the book removed from the system's AP English curriculum. | |description_of_incident=Due to scenes involving sex between two of the novel's main characters, parents in the Katy school system lobbied to have the book removed from the system's AP English curriculum. | ||
|description_of_result="Fight Club" was removed from the English curriculum. The removal has yet to be retracted. | |description_of_result="Fight Club" was removed from the English curriculum. The removal has yet to be retracted. | ||
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Latest revision as of 20:07, 1 February 2013
Artist: Chuck Palaniuk
Year: 2012
Date of Action: November 28, 2012
Region: North America
Location: Katy, Texas
Subject: Explicit Sexuality
Medium: Literature
Confronting Bodies: Parents
Description of Artwork: Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia. Inspired by his doctor's exasperated remark that insomnia is not suffering, he finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups. Then he meets a mysterious man named Tyler Durden and establishes an underground fighting club as radical psychotherapy.
The Incident: Due to scenes involving sex between two of the novel's main characters, parents in the Katy school system lobbied to have the book removed from the system's AP English curriculum.
Results of Incident: "Fight Club" was removed from the English curriculum. The removal has yet to be retracted.
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