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Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910-2010 : The Long Walk to Artistic Freedom.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (243 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781683930167
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910-2010DDC classification:
  • 344.68097
LOC classification:
  • KTL3483 .L376 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Legal Groundwork, 1910-1955 -- 1 Preparing the Ground for Autonomization -- Part II: Hesitant Legal Recognition, 1955-1975 -- 2 The 1965 Trials -- 3 The 1974 Trial of André Brink's Kennis van die Aand -- Part III: Despite Rollback Efforts, Ongoing Recognition, 1975-1980 -- 4 The 1978 Case of Etienne Leroux's Magersfontein, O Magersfontein! -- Part IV: Decisive Legal Recognition, 1980-2010 -- 5 (The Road to) Constitutional Autonomy -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: On the basis of institutional and poetological analyses of legal trials concerning literature held in South Africa during the period 1910-2010, this study describes how the battles fought in and around the courts between literary, judicial, and executive elites eventually led to a constitutional exceptio artis (artistic freedom) for literature.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Legal Groundwork, 1910-1955 -- 1 Preparing the Ground for Autonomization -- Part II: Hesitant Legal Recognition, 1955-1975 -- 2 The 1965 Trials -- 3 The 1974 Trial of André Brink's Kennis van die Aand -- Part III: Despite Rollback Efforts, Ongoing Recognition, 1975-1980 -- 4 The 1978 Case of Etienne Leroux's Magersfontein, O Magersfontein! -- Part IV: Decisive Legal Recognition, 1980-2010 -- 5 (The Road to) Constitutional Autonomy -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

On the basis of institutional and poetological analyses of legal trials concerning literature held in South Africa during the period 1910-2010, this study describes how the battles fought in and around the courts between literary, judicial, and executive elites eventually led to a constitutional exceptio artis (artistic freedom) for literature.

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