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?
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