CRITICISM

Blium, Arlen Viktorovich. “‘The Jewish Question’ and Censorship in the USSR.” In The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation, edited by Jonathan Rose, pp. 79-103. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.

Describes the censorship and persecution of Jewish authors and works during the Stalin era in the Soviet Union.

Cohen, Mark. “In Defence of Censorship: Margaret Laurence.” In Censorship in Canadian Literature, pp. 88-118. Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.

Discusses the censorship case of Canadian feminist novelist Laurence.

Kinkley, Jeffrey C. Chinese Justice: The Fiction, Law, & Literature in Modern China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000, 497 p.

Examines issues of censorship by the Communist Party in China.

McDonald, Peter D. “‘Not Undesirable’: J. M. Coetzee and the Burdens of Censorship.” In Re-Constructing the Book: Literary Texts in Transmission, edited by Maureen Bell, Shirley Chew, Simon Eliot, et al, pp. 170-83. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2001.

Analyzes the process used by the South African Publication Control Board to determine whether Coetzee's novels In the Heart of the Country and Life and Times of Michael K should be censored.

Meyer, Richard. “‘Have You Heard the One about the Lesbian Who Goes to the Supreme Court?’: Holly Hughes and the Case against Censorship.” Theatre Journal 52, no. 4 (2000): 543-52.

Discusses the case of Hughes versus the National Endowment for the Arts, which rescinded four grants awarded to Hughes in 1990 on the grounds that her work is obscene.

Mostyn, Trevor. Censorship in Islamic Societies. London, England: Saqi Books, 2002, 216 p.

Examines the various kinds of censorship that exist in modern Islamic societies.

Phillips, John. Forbidden Fiction: Pornography & Censorship in Twentieth-Century French Literature. Chadlington, England: Pluto Press, 1999, 241 p.

Detailed study of pornography and censorship in France, including such figures as Guillaume Apollinaire, Georges Bataille, and Alain Robbe-Grillet.

Pudal, Bernard. “Symbolic Censorship and Control of Appropriations: The French Communist Party Facing ‘Heretical’ Texts during the Cold War.” Libraries & Culture 36, no. 1 (2001): 152-61.

Discusses the methods employed by the French Communist Party during the Cold War to control the writings of intellectuals who did not adhere strictly to Party teachings.

Smejkalová, Jirina. “Censors and Their Readers: Selling, Silencing, and Reading Czech Books.” Libraries & Culture 36, no. 1 (2001): 87-103.

Provides an overview of literary censorship and control in Czechoslovakia between 1950 and 1989.

Sorkin, Adam. “The Paradox of the Fortunate Fall: Censorship and Poetry in Communist Romania.” Literary Review 45, no. 4 (summer 2002): 886-910.

Maintains that censorship measures in Romania from 1948 to 1989 in effect inspired poets to do their best work in reaction to restrictions.

Speer, Lisa K. “Paperback Pornography: Mass Market Novels and Censorship in Post-War America.” Journal of American & Comparative Cultures 24, nos. 3 & 4 (fall-winter 2001): 153-60.

Analyzes censorship of paperback novels in the 1950s, commenting that the novels reflected contemporary ideas about sexual propriety.