Take away/take the word: censorship, prohibition and secrecy in literature and publishing

Abstract

Readers of this dossier will find here an invitation to analyze some of the effects of what John M. Coetzee called the "passion to silence" (Coetzee), an issue that, we maintain, is more relevant today than ever in the face of the worrying rise of new rights in our continent, the struggles for the construction of the memory of State terrorism and the sophisticated forms of speech regulation imposed by control societies. In this context, it is essential to make visible, value and build an archive of the productions, which, defying the adversity of these conditions in the present or in the past, find a way to circumvent the mechanisms of prohibition and censorship, giving proof of the multiple micropolitical forms assumed by resistance.

Keywords

• dossier
• literatura
• censura
• prohibición