Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds

by Karolides, Nicholas J.

• ISBN13: 9780816033041
• ISBN10: 0816033048
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Facts on File

Summary

Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their assumptions or questioned their activities. Political censorship was even applied to ancient Greek dramas during the Nazi occupation in 1942. Political suppression also occurs in the name of "security" and the safeguarding of official secrets, and is often used as a weapon in larger cultural or political battles. Such censorship has affected every form of writing; Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds illustrates its extent and frequency. Works covered Include: -- Animal Farm, George Orwell -- Born on the Fourth of July, Ron Kovic -- Burger's Daughter, Nadine Gordimer -- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown -- Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- The Case for India, Will Durant -- The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx -- Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak -- El Senor President, Miguel Angel Asturias -- A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway -- The Fugitive, Pramoedya Anata Toer -- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck -- Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift -- The Jungle, Upton Sinclair -- Les Miserables, Victor Hugo -- Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler -- The Odyssey, Homer -- Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut -- The Struggle Is My Life, Nelson Mandela.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vi
Introduction	vii
Foreword	ix
Preface	xiii
Works Discussed in This Volume	xv
Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds	1	(498)
Biographical Profiles	499	(26)
Bibliography	525	(24)
Works Discussed in the Other Volumes of This Series	549	(20)
Index	569

Excerpts

Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms (1929) was banned in Italy upon publication for its depiction of the ignominious World War I retreat of Italian forces from Caporetta. Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their assumptions or questioned their activities. Political censorship was even applied to ancient Greek dramas during the Nazi occupation in 1942. Political suppression also occurs in the name of security and the safeguarding of official secrets, and is often used as a weapon in larger cultural or political battles.
Such censorship has affected every form of writing; Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds illustrates its extent and frequency.
Works covered include:
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Born on the Fourth of July (Ron Kovic)
Burger's Daughter (Nadine Gordimer)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown)
Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
The Case for India (Will Durant)
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
El Señor President (Miguel Angel Asturias)
The Fugitive (Pramoedya Anata Toer)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
Manifesto of the Communist Party (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels)
Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler)
The Prince (Machiavelli)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
The Struggle Is My Life (Nelson Mandela).