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Literary Censorship in Francisco Franco's Spain and Getulio Vargas' Brazil, 1936-1945 - Burning Books, Awarding Writers (Paperback)
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Literary Censorship in Francisco Franco's Spain and Getulio Vargas' Brazil, 1936-1945 - Burning Books, Awarding Writers (Paperback)
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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