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Book SynopsisThis text presents an analysis of censorship from the perspective of a writer who has lived and worked under its shadow. Seeking to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring, Coetzee focuses on the ways authors have historically responded to censorship.
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1: Taking Offense 2: Emerging from Censorship 3: Lady Chatterley's Lover: The Taint of the Pornographic 4: The Harms of Pornography: Catharine MacKinnon 5: Erasmus: Madness and Rivalry 6: Osip Mandelstam and the Stalin Ode 7: Censorship and Polemic: Solzhenitsyn 8: Zbigniew Herbert and the Figure of the Censor 9: Apartheid Thinking 10: The Work of the Censor: Censorship in South Africa 11: The Politics of Dissent: Andre Brink 12: Breyten Breytenbach and the Reader in the Mirror Notes Works Cited Index
