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Censorship and the Limits of the Literary
By Nicole Moore
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Description
On the one hand, literary censorship has been posited as not only inescapable but definitive, even foundational to speech itself. One the other, especially after the opening of the USSR's spekstrahn, those enormous collections of literature forbidden under the Soviets, the push to redefine censorship expansively has encountered cogent criticism. Scholars describing the centralised control of East German print publication, for example, have wanted to insist on the difference of pre-publication state censorship from more mundane forms of speech regulation in democracies. Work on South African apartheid censorship and book banning in colonial countries also demonstrates censorship's formative role in the institutional structures of literature beyond the metropole. Censorship and the Limits of the Literary examines these and other developments across twelve countries, from the Enlightenment to the present day, offering case studies from the French revolution to Internet China. Is literature ever without censorship? Does censorship need the literary? In a globalizing era for culture, does censorship represent the final, failed version of national control?
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Edition:
- 1
- Number of Pages:
- 270
- Release Date:
- 2017-02-23
- Publication Date:
- 2017-02-23
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury 3PL
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 150133039X
- ISBN13:
- 9781501330391
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 396 g
- Height:
- 152 cm
- Width:
- 229 cm
- Thickness:
- 15 cm
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