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Literary Censorship in Francisco Franco's Spain and Getulio Vargas' Brazil, 1936-1945 - Burning Books, Awarding Writers (Hardcover)
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Literary Censorship in Francisco Franco's Spain and Getulio Vargas' Brazil, 1936-1945 - Burning Books, Awarding Writers (Hardcover)
Series: The Portuguese-Speaking World
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This book presents two systems of censorship and literary
promotion, revealing how literature can be molded to support
authoritarian regimes. The issue is complex in that at a
descriptive level the strategies and methods new states use to
control communication through the written word can be judged by how
and when formal decrees were issued, and how publishing media,
whether in the form of publishing companies or at the individual
level, engaged with political overseers. But equally, literature
was a means of resistance against an authoritarian regime, not only
for writers but for readers as well. From the point of view of
historical memory and intellectual history, stories of people
without history and the production of their texts through the
literary underground can be constructed from subsequent testimony:
from books sold in secret, to the writings of women in jail, to
books that were written but never published or distributed in any
way, and to myriad compelling circumstances resulting from living
under fascist authority. A parallel study on two fascist movements
provides a unique viewpoint at literary, social and political
levels. Comparative analysis of literary censorship/literary reward
allows an understanding of the balance between dictatorship,
official policy, and what literary acts were deemed acceptable. The
regime need to control its population is revealed in the ways that
a particular type of literature was encouraged; in the engagement
of propoganda promotion; and in the setting up of institutions to
gain international acceptance of the regime. The work is an
important contribution to the history of twentieth-century
authoritarianism and the development fascist ideas.
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