Nicole Moore

Censorship and the Limits of the Literary: A Global View Nicole Moore

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; 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?--; Provided by publisher.; Explores the defining relationship of literature to censorship across the globe--; Provided by publisher. Biographical Note: Nicole Moore is Associate Professor in English at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia. She is the author of "The Censor's Library: Uncovering the Lost History of Australia's Banned Books," which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Australian History Prize 2013, and co-editor of "The Literature of Australia "(2009). Table of Contents: List of Illustrations Introduction - Nicole Moore I 1. French Censorship on the Eve of the Revolution Simon Burrows (University of Western Sydney, Australia) 2. Not Guilty: Negative Capability and the Trials of William Hone Clara Tuite (University of Melbourne, Australia) 3. The Gender of Censorship: John Wilson Croker, Mary Hays and the Aftermath of the Queen Caroline affair 4. 'The Chastity of our Records': Reading and Judging Obscenity in 19th-Century Courts Karen Crawley (Griffith University, Australia) II 5. Controlling People and Controlling Ideas: Libel, Surveillance, Banishment and Indigenous Literary Expression in the Dutch East Indies Paul Tickell (University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia) 6. Teaching Librarians to be Censors: Library Education for Francophones in Quebec, 1937-1961 Geoffrey Little (Concordia University, Montreal) Paul Tickell (University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia) 7. Surrealism to Pulp: The Limits of the Literary and Australian Customs Nicole Moore (University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia) 8. 'That Monstrous Thing': The Critic as Censor in Apartheid South Africa Peter McDonald (St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK) III 9. Diabolical Evasion of the Censor in Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita" Ilona McCarter (Deakin University, Australia) 10. Readingthe Enemy: East German Censorship across the Wall Christina Spittel (University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia) 11. Wild Spiders Crying Together: Confessional Poetry, Censorship and the Cold War Tyne Daile Sumner (University of Melbourne, Australia) 12. Freedom to Read: Barney Rosset, Henry Miller, and the End of Obscenity Loren Glass (University of Iowa, USA) IV 13. Out of the Shadows: The Emergence of Overt Gay Narratives in Australia, 1970-2010 Jeremy Fisher (University of New England, USA) 13. Silenced Lives: Censorship and the Rise of Diasporic Iranian Women's Memoirs in English Sanaz Fotouhi (University of New South Wales, Australia) 14. Egypt's 'Facebook Revolution': Arab Diaspora Literature and Censorship in the Homeland Jumana Bayeh (University of Edinburgh, UK) 15. Censorship and Value: Novel pathways in internet-age China Lynda Ng (University of Oxford, UK) List of Contributors IndexPublisher Marketing: 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. One 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? Contributor Bio:  Moore, Nicole Nicole Moore is a registered nurse who nearly died after being brutally attacked twice by a shark in Cancun, Mexico. This assault resulted in her arm being amputated and major surgeries to repair her leg. Today, she inspires audiences with her breathtaking story of survival, showcasing her extraordinary positive spirit. She lives in East Garafraxa, Ontario.