Censorship and literature in fascist Italy / Guido Bonsaver.

"Examining the pervasiveness of censorship in Fascist Italy, from the entrenchment of Mussolini's role as 'prime censor' to the suppression of works by female writers, this is a look, at the vulnerability of culture under a dictatorship."--Jacket

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bonsaver, Guido (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2007.
Series:Toronto Italian studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1: Mussolini takes the helm
  • Towards a new system
  • Carrots, sticks, and charismatic ruling
  • The censor and the censored
  • 2: Censorship fascist style, 1934-1939
  • From Press Office to ministry of popular culture
  • Shaping Italian literature
  • Anti-semitism and 'cultural reclamation'
  • 3: A nation at war, 1940-1943
  • A turn of the screw
  • Foreign fiction and weak autarky
  • Unfinished business
  • Conclusion.