Literature And The Law In South Africa, 1910-2010 : The Long Walk To Artistic Freedom

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.

• | Author: Ted Laros
• | Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 29, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 242 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1683930150
• | ISBN-13: 9781683930150