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Book SynopsisAt the height of state censorship in Japan, more indexes of banned books circulated, more essays on censorship were published, and more works of illicit erotic and proletarian fiction were produced. This study examines the contradictory relationships between preservation, production, and redaction.
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Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on the Translation Introduction: Archiving Censors Part I. Preservation 1. The Censor's Archives and Beyond 2. Indices of Censorship 3. Essaying the Censors Part II. Production 4. Seditious Obscenities 5. Literary Casualties of War Part III. Redaction 6. Epigraphs 7. Redactionary Literature 8. Beyond X 9. Unnaming and the Language of Slaves Coda 10. Redaction Countertime Notes Bibliography Index
