Redacted Abel, Jonathan E
2012., 20120818, 2012, 2012-09-13, 20120101, Letnik:
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At the height of state censorship in Japan, more indexes of banned books circulated, more essays on censorship were published, more works of illicit erotic and proletarian fiction were produced, and ...more passages were Xed out than at any other moment before or since. As censors construct and maintain their own archives, their acts of suppression yield another archive, filled with documents on, against, and in favor of censorship. The extant archive of the Japanese imperial censor (1923-1945) and the archive of the Occupation censor (1945-1952) stand as tangible reminders of this contradictory function of censors. As censors removed specific genres, topics, and words from circulation, some Japanese writers converted their offensive rants to innocuous fluff after successive encounters with the authorities. But, another coterie of editors, bibliographers, and writers responded to censorship by pushing back, using their encounters with suppression as incitement to rail against the authorities and to appeal to the prurient interests of their readers. This study examines these contradictory relationships between preservation, production, and redaction to shed light on the dark valley attributed to wartime culture and to cast a shadow on the supposedly bright, open space of free postwar discourse. (Winner of the 2010-2011 First Book Award of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University ).
This remarkable book details the work of one of the most extraordinary publishing enterprises in history. Censor-baiting, provocative, simultaneous publisher of the literary elite and of ‘dirty ...books’, Jack Kahane’s Obelisk Press published Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Lawrence Durrell, D. H. Lawrence, and James Joyce among others. At the same time Kahane subsidised his literary endeavours with cheap erotica and trash fiction from long-forgotten eccentrics such as New York Daily News’ Rome correspondent and self-styled ‘Marco Polo of Sex’ N. Reynolds Packard. Kahane’s business model was simple: if a book was banned in the UK and US it could be profitably published in Paris. Here, for the first time, Neil Pearson has pulled together the incendiary story of Obelisk, including biographies of Kahane and his major and minor authors, and a bibliography of Obelisk books. This beautifully written volume – part cultural history, part reference book – will be required reading for anyone interested in controversial writing, censorship, 1920s Paris, publishing history and authors such as Miller, Joyce and Nin.
El artículo analiza diferentes documentos judiciales referentes a la vida del marqués de Moncada y examina dos de sus manuscritos, a fin de demostrar que algunos militares además de desempeñarse en ...el ejercicio de las armas practicaron la lectura y la traducción escrita en Nueva España durante la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII.
Free their minds Jamie M Jenkins
Columbia law review,
12/2023, Letnik:
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Recenzirano
Book bans and censorship battles have garnered considerable attention in recent years, but one of the most critical battlegrounds is kept out of the public eye. Prison officials can ban any book that ...threatens the security or operations of their facility. This means that the knowledge access rights of incarcerated people are subject to the judgments of the people detaining them. This Note focuses on books about Black people in America and books about the history of and conditions in prisons, which are often banned for their potential to be divisive or incite unrest. The result is that Black people, who are already disproportionately victimized by the criminal punishment system, cannot read their own history and the history of the institution imprisoning them.
This Note examines the legal backdrop enabling these book bans. As an example, it highlights the recent ban of Heather Ann Thompson's 'Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy' in the New York State prison system, including at the Attica Correctional Facility. This Note argues that prison book bans are coeval with attacks on Black history in American schools, and labels both practices as attempts to stifle the democratic engagement of Black people and other marginalized groups. As a guiding thesis, it draws inspiration from the organizers of the Attica prison uprising to assert that this fight is best understood from the vantage point of those most impacted by prison book bans: incarcerated people who are denied the right to read.
For 2, 500 years literature has been condemned in the name of authority, truth, morality and society. But in making explicit what a society expects from literature, anti-literary discourse ...paradoxically asserts the validity of what it wishes to deny. The threat to literature's continued existence, William Marx writes, is not hatred but indifference.
Las transformaciones sociales, económicas y culturales emprendidas bajo el reinado de Carlos III tuvieron como marco de referencia un ambiente ilustrado y una elite capaz de sostener el espíritu ...reformista. Un ejemplo de ellos fue el religioso mercedario Raimundo Melchor Magi, obispo de Guadix y Baza, miembro destacado de la intelligentsia valenciana de la Corte y quien llegó a atesorar a lo largo de su vida una importante biblioteca personal de más de mil ejemplares, traídos de toda Europa, y a través de los cuales se puede descubrir el reflejo de su propia biografía así como los particulares intereses intelectuales y académicos de su propietario.
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 the twenty-first century. Praise for the first edition of Purity in Print: "Paul Boyer is one of America's most distinguished cultural historians. . . . Taking the censors of an earlier day seriously and getting beyond the caricature of Anthony Comstock, Purity in Print remains one of the most important books on censorship in the United States."-Carl Kaestle, Brown University, co-editor of The History of the Book in America, Volume IV"Clear, informative, and very readable. . . . An excellent and much-needed book."-Publishers Weekly"Thoroughly documented and richly illustrated. . . . Boyer has traced the confusions, the ironies, and the sometimes humorous and sometimes tragic effects of American efforts to cope with the question of what is permissible and what is taboo in the public morality and in the printed word."-George K. Smart, American Quarterly"Boyer has carefully read the sources, interviewed surviving participants in the censorship battles, and has produced an eminently readable and judicious account."-Stow Persons, American Historical Review"Highly readable."-Baltimore Sun.
Under Maria Theresa (ruled 1740‒1780), handling books in Austrian and Bohemian lands was largely governed by the
Index librorum prohibitorum
, which the Catholic Church in Rome started publishing in ...1559, and the
Catalogus librorum a commissione aulica prohibitorum
, which the Court Book Censorship Committee in Vienna published from 1754 onward. Through censorship secularization, the Viennese index gradually replaced the Roman one, but that did not mean it did not copy it or that it was more liberal. It was created under the influence of the (moderate and Catholic) Enlightenment, but its main goals continued to be protecting the faith and the Church, as well as pursuing the interests of the (Catholic) ruling dynasty and its state. The Viennese index soon reached the same length as the Roman one, but it by far exceeded it in the frequency of its updates and releases. Compared to the Roman index, it had a more internal character: it did not list the names of the ruler (and co-regent) and responsible officials, nor the areas it applied to. It was more forgiving toward scholarly and older Protestant, political, and philosophical works. It treated pseudo-scholarly and more recent Protestant works, as well as old literature, in a similar way as the Roman index (i.e., mostly strictly), and it was stricter toward religious Catholic works and more recent political and philosophical works and literature (especially plays).
