Writers, Literature and Censorship in Poland. 1948-1958

The book describes the system of communist censorship in Poland in the years 1948-1958, as well as its effects on the development of literature. It is the first literary studies work which takes up the subject in such broad and systematic terms.
The book is divided into three main parts: an attempt at synthesis (theory and practice of censorship), special cases (censorship of specific writers), authorial strategies (the authors' ways of dealing with censorship) and contexts.
The most important conclusion which can be drawn from the research is that out of many small changes emerges an image of a very significant one. Numerous small cuts and alterations build up to an image of Polish literature of the 1940s and 1950s as a whole. A whole that was always dependant on and subservient to politics.

List of contents

Censorship theory - Communist period - Writers' exclusion - Publishers, writers, readers and censorship - The outline of censor's work - Censorship towards the writers - Examples (e.g. Stanislaw Lem) - Writing strategies - Reading strategies - Comparisons - Contexts - 1948-1958

About the author

Kamila Budrowska is a professor at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Bialystok, head of the Department of Philological Studies on the Censorship of the People¿s Republic of Poland and Editorship. She is the author of over hundred publications on censorship towards literature in the years 1945¿1989.

Product details

• Authors: Kamila Budrowska
• Assisted by: Ryszard Nycz (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783631801482
• ISBN: 978-3-631-80148-2
• No. of pages: 382
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 30 mm x 212 mm
• Weight: 561 g
• Series: Cross-Roads
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Geschichte, Polen, Zweite Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (1950 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Medienwissenschaften, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, Bialymstoku; Censoredbooks; cenzury; Galecki; literatura; Lukasz; MainOfficeofControlofPress; Nycz; People'sRepublicofpisarze; Politicsandtheauthors; PublicationsandPublicPerformances; Readingstrategies; Ryszard; Uniwersytetu; wobec; Writingstrategie