Summary: To Deprave and Corrupt: Forbidden, Hidden and Censored Books | Ken Gelder This paper will look at the late J.D. Salinger and his novel, The Catcher in the Rye (1951), which was simultaneously a bestseller, a familiar set text on secondary school syllabi and a banned novel in several US states as well as in Australia. The paper will then comment on subsequent issues of censorship and plagiarism in the context of the Swedish author ‘J.D. California’s’ unauthorised sequel, Coming Through the Rye (2009), which – through its court case – raised the issue of plagiarism as tribute versus plagiarism as critique/critical distance. The paper will then offer some general thoughts about literature and sequels and plagiarism in the light of this court case.
