TY - BOOK AU - Moore,Nicole TI - Censorship and the limits of the literary: a global view SN - 9781628920093 (hardback) AV - Z657 .C435 2015 U1 - 363.31 23 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc KW - Censorship KW - History KW - Case studies KW - Literature, Modern KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and state KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "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. On 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?"--; "Explores the defining relationship of literature to censorship across the globe"-- ER -