Censorship and the Limits of the Literary - A Global View (Hardcover)

Though literature and censorship have been conceived as long-time adversaries, this collection seeks to understand the degree to which they have been dialectical terms, each producing the other, coeval and mutually constitutive. 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?

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2015
First published:	February 2015
Editors:	Nicole Moore (Associate Professor)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-62892-009-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > Censorship
LSN:	1-62892-009-2
Barcode:	9781628920093

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