Vol. 8 (2024): Transnational Forms of Censorship: Literature and the Arts

The monographic section of issue 8 of the journal, edited by Nora Moll, focuses on the theme of censorship, as a form of control by political power or interest groups, which to this day conditions not only the practices of book publishing and dissemination, but also the aesthetic choices themselves, in the various fields of artistic expression and not only in the literary sphere. If the consequences of censorship, on the level of aesthetic strategies and the reception of artistic, literary and artistic-figurative works, as well as on the socio-historical level, may have a clear national definition, there are many others that are also and above all configured on a transnational and intercultural level. The articles collected in this section highlight some of these aspects through case studies in the fields of translation and reception studies, imagology, visual studies and gender studies. The common thread running through all the contributions is a strenuous reflection on the nexus and friction between literary and figurative art, on the one hand, and power and the various forms of cultural hegemony, on the other: issues to which it is good to return cyclically, with a look at both history and the present.