[48-50] We associate book banning, the legal prohibition of the circulation of specific books, with authoritarian regimes; however, it happens in modern democracies as well. Countless notable works, including Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, have faced such scrutiny, albeit for different reasons.
Despite winning a Nobel Prize, Korean author Han Kang has seen her novel The Vegetarian, a novel that excoriates societal norms, particul...