Literary censorship: conceptual and theoretical development, the purposes of action and operation

Abstract

Censorship must understand the set of actions of the state or groups of fact or formal existence able to impose a manuscript or galley proofs of the work of a writer deletions or changes against the will of the author. Consequently, censorship affects the work of writers, preventing the free expression of their ideas for a requisite indispensable literary or artistic creation. However, a detailed analysis of the power relations that exist in every society, many writers were able throughout history to carry out an indirect criticism through ambiguous language, if not contradictory, tacitly led to a complaint in repressive contexts. It is in this sense that this article analyzes the subject of censorial phenomenon, exposing the theoretical development of the concept of censorship and seeking to insert it in an historical analysis. The article aims to understand theoretically what is the censorial control and his various facets. Some concepts of Pierre Bourdie or Michel Foucault are extremely useful for the purposes of this study, which underscore the repressive systems that determine and shape the constitution of controlled subjects.