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Though literature and censorship have been conceived as long-time adversaries, this collection seeks to understand, rather, the degree to which they have been dialectical terms, each producing the other, coeval and mutually constitutive. After the opening of the USSR's spekstrahn, the enormous collections of literature forbidden under the Soviets, containing more than one million items, the push to redefine censorship so expansively has encountered cogent criticism. German scholars describing the centralised control of East German print publication, for example, have wanted to insist on the substantive difference of pre-publication state censorship from more mundane forms of speech regulation in democracies. Work on South African apartheid censorship and the operations of censorship in colonial countries is also demonstrating its formative role in the institutional structures of literature beyond the metropole. In light of these and other developments, Censorship and the Limits of the Literary examines a number of critical issues. 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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Ethical issues & debates

• Full title: Censorship and the Limits of the Literary
• Subtitle: A Global View
• Author: Nicole Moore
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9781628920093
• ISBN: 1628920092
• ID: 05160393
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 532 g
• Dimensions: 161 × 245 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. August 2015

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