Giving Offense (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: J. M. Coetzee
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Essays
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Politics, Literature, Feminism, South Africa or South Africans, Censorship, Soviet Union or Soviets, Pornography
Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship is not a systematic analysis of the modern phenomenon of censorship. Rather, it is a collection of a dozen essays which appeared in a number of periodicals such as Salmagundi, Mosaic, Neophilologus, Social Dynamics, and Raritan during the period 1988-1993. As a consequence, the volume lacks a consistency of argumentation; however, this minor flaw (if it can even be called that) is more than compensated for by a clarity of vision and a deep understanding on the part of an author who has some firsthand...
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