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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778074903321

Autore

McDonald Peter D

Titolo

The literature police [[electronic resource] ] : apartheid censorship and its cultural consequences / / Peter D. McDonald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-12612-1

9786612126123

0-19-155784-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Classificazione

18.12

Disciplina

363.310968

820.9968

Soggetti

Censorship - South Africa - History

South African literature - Censorship

Apartheid - South Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-399) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Note to the Reader; Introduction; Part I: Creating Spaces/Guarding Borders; Part II: Singular Situations/Disruptive Moments; Postscript; Chronology; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Uncovers the tangled stories of censorship and literature in apartheid South Africa, drawing on a wealth of new evidence from censorship archives, archives of resistance publishers and writers' groups, and oral testimony. A unique perspective on one of the most repressive, anachronistic, and racist states in the post-war era. - ;'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.' As the history of many repressive regimes shows, this vital borderline has seldom been so clearly demarcated. Just how murky it can some