Giving Offense
Essays on Censorship
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Preface and Acknowledgments 1: Taking Offense 2: Emerging from Censorship 3: Lady Chatterley's Lover: The Taint of the Pornographic 4: The Harms of Pornography: Catharine MacKinnon 5: Erasmus: Madness and Rivalry 6: Osip Mandelstam and the Stalin Ode 7: Censorship and Polemic: Solzhenitsyn 8: Zbigniew Herbert and the Figure of the Censor 9: Apartheid Thinking 10: The Work of the Censor: Censorship in South Africa 11: The Politics of Dissent: Andre Brink 12: Breyten Breytenbach and the Reader in the Mirror Notes Works Cited Index
Focusing on the ways authors have traditionally responded to censorship, this is a collection of essays which attempt to understand the motives for censorship. It argues that a society bound by censorship engenders a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalating rivalry.
