Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan Volume 11

by Jonathan E. Abel

At the height of state censorship in Japan, more indexes of banned books circulated, more essays on censorship were published, more works of illicit erotic and proletarian fiction were produced, and more passages were Xed out than at any other moment before or since. As censors construct and maintain their own archives, their acts of suppression yield another archive, filled with documents on, against, and in favor of censorship. The extant archive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520273346
• ISBN13: 9780520273344
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"