Underground publishing and the public sphere
Subtitle: transnational perspectives
By: edited by Jan C. Behrends and Thomas Lindenberger
Series: Wiener Studien zur Zeitgeschichte -- Band 6; Wiener Studien zur Zeitgeschichte -- Bd. 6.
Publisher: Lit
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Wien; Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9783643905611
Subjects: Underground literature; History and criticism; Littérature clandestine; Histoire et critique; Illegal press; Historia
Description: Censorship and its counterpart, the 'underground' production and distribution of printed texts and images, existed ever since a 'public sphere' came into being. The volume approaches this phenomenon by covering cases from the Tsarist Empire, the Soviet Union, Central Europe, South America and China. In a long-term as well as global perspective, the well-known practise of samizdat under communist rule may be understood as part of a long tradition of underground publishing still relevant today in places like Russia, Iran, or China.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-348).
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Underground publishing and the public sphere : some introductory remarks  -- Jan Claas Behrends, Thomas Lindenberger; title: Peripheries of the Russian Empire.; title: "Approved by the censor" : tsarist censorship and the public sphere in imperial Russia and the kingdom of Poland (1860-1914)  -- Malte Rolf; title: Repressive censorship, underground publishing, and the distribution of Lithuanian books in the northwest region of the Russian Empire (1795-1904)  -- Arvydas Pacevičius, Aušra Navickienė; title: Samizdat in the Soviet Union.; title: Arcane and public spheres in the Soviet Union  -- Dietrich Beyrau; title: Forging national and transnational ties : underground publication in Estonia under Soviet rule  -- Aile Möldre; title: Imagining the Russian nation : the story of antisemitism in Soviet samizdat  -- Julie Draskoczy; title: Central Europe under totalitarian rule.; title: Religious symbols in Polish underground art and poetry of the 1980s  -- Anna Niedźwiedź; title: Dissident voices : searching for traces of Romanian samizdat  -- Stefana Lamasanu; title: The concept of Europe between the underground and the official public sphere : narratives and self-perceptions in central Europe during Communism  -- Christian Domnitz; title: Transnational and global perspectives.; title: Forbidden fruit : smuggling and publishing across borders in ancien régime France and Cold War eastern Europe  -- Jessie Labov, Frederike Kind-Kovács; title: China's Neibu publishing : the art of limiting public spheres  -- Lorenz Bichler; title: Written contraband : the Jewish resistance press during the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983) -- Ricardo Feierstein, Liliana Ruth Feierstein.