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Q&A: Duke professor Dorfman discusses controversy over his play

(10/21/15 6:06am)

Ariel Dorfman, Walter Hines Page research professor of literature, has written more than 25 books in his career. One of his most famous plays, “Death and the Maiden,” has come under scrutiny recently at a New Jersey high school. Parents at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School are petitioning to remove the play from mandatory reading lists due to its vulgar language and imagery. A counter-petition to keep the piece has also been started. The Chronicle’s Anupriya Sivakumar sat down with Dorfman to discuss the implications of his work, the problem of censorship in society and how his experience as an exile from Chile during the regime of Augusto Pinochet has motivated his career.