Censorship and the Limits of the Literary: A Global View Contributor(s): Moore, Nicole (Editor) |
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ISBN: 150133039X ISBN-13: 9781501330391 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $51.43 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Political Science | Censorship |
Dewey: 363.31 |
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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? |
Contributor Bio(s): Moore, Nicole: - Nicole Moore is Associate Professor in English at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia. She is the author of The Censor's Library: Uncovering the Lost History of Australia's Banned Books and and co-editor of The Literature of Australia. |