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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780504403321

Autore

Bonsaver Guido

Titolo

Censorship and literature in fascist Italy / / Guido Bonsaver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

0-8020-9496-1

1-4426-8415-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (422 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Disciplina

303.3/76094509041

Soggetti

Italian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Censorship - Italy - History - 20th century

Publishers and publishing - Italy

Fascism and literature - Italy

Politics and culture - Italy - History - 20th century

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Italy Cultural policy History 20th century

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

1: Mussolini takes the helm -- Towards a new system -- Carrots, sticks, and charismatic ruling -- The censor and the censored -- 2: Censorship fascist style, 1934-1939 -- From Press Office to ministry of popular culture -- Shaping Italian literature -- Anti-semitism and 'cultural reclamation' -- 3: A nation at war, 1940-1943 -- A turn of the screw -- Foreign fiction and weak autarky -- Unfinished business -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"Examining the pervasiveness of censorship in Fascist Italy, from the entrenchment of Mussolini's role as 'prime censor' to the suppression of works by female writers, this is a look, at the vulnerability of culture under a dictatorship."--Jacket