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1!Censorship of Language: Peculiarities and Aspects
In todays world, it feels as if every sentence, no matter the platform, is inherently censored and carefully constructed. This phenomenon can be attributed to political correctness, or PC, movement. The PC movement has permeated all major platforms such as radio, social media, television, and literature. The fact of the matter is that some different phrases and motifs have been redacted from the acceptable language column. The intense and visual language that accompanies sex, drugs, and violence is nothing more than a mere vaulted afterthought. The PC movement within itself has innumerable positive aspects, such as being politically and ethically correct to be conscious of other races, genders, religious groups, ethnicities, and others. However, when recounting very troubling historical events, it is almost impossible to provide censorship. In Marlon Jamess novel, The Book of Night Women, the negative aspect of this type of language comes to fruition. Ma
rlon James knows all too well that without the use of this vulgar and explicit language, he wouldnt be able to paint an accurate picture of the events, feelings, and people who existed in one of the most disturbing practices in modern history: Slavery. Marlon James, the author of the book, is a Jamaican born novelist who grew up in Kingston. The novel follows a young girl born into slavery navigate through a brutal reality immersed in slavery, rape, murder, inequality, and torture. James is able to create a masterful view of slavery in Jamaica through careful and thorough research combined with his own censorable experiences growing up in Jamaica. This use of language along with Jamess use of broken English allows the reader to experience a world in which is unimaginable, but also historically and culturally representative of the era in which slavery existed. Despite this language, at times, being hard to read, the vulgarity and vivid descriptions of the repugnant events are strategically used by James to cast a light on the true horrors and events in slavery and forces the reader to align themselves with the real fear and events slaves had to endure.