Boyer's (history, U. of Wisconsin, Madison) first edition of this work, published in 1968, chronicling censorship from the 19th century through the 1930s, is presented here essentially unchanged. New to this edition are chapters extending the book's scope to the present, with to…
The first edition of Purity in Print documented book censorship in America from the 1870s to the 1930s, embedding it within the larger social and cultural history of the time. In this second edition, Boyer adds two new chapters carrying his history forward to the beginning of th…
Joseph Anton: memórias
by Siqueira, Jose Rubens, Garschagen, Donaldson M., Rushdie, Salman
On February 14, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a call from a journalist informing him that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa. His crime? Writing a novel, The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "a…
Free speech: a very short introduction
Literatuuropgave : p. 171-178. - Met reg. (Hb ; alk. paper) (Pb ; alk. paper) In South Africa under apartheid all writers were confronted with the question of how to respond to the pressure of censorship. Impact of censorship on South African literature, censorship laws of the a…
A critical assessment of literature produced under censorship needs to take into account that the strategies of the censors are answered by strategies of the writers and the readers. To recognize self-censoring strategies in writing, it is necessary to know the specific restrict…