Description

• Title:
  Polish Literature and the “Guardians of Silence”. Censorship Mechanisms in the Polish People’s Republic versus Defensive Techniques
• Creator:
  Dabert, Dobrochna
• Description:
  The article attempts to synthesise the issue of institutional censorship mechanisms in the Polish People’s Republic which affected the literary communities and literature itself. It also analyses the techniques that writers and literary critics used in order to limit the damage done by the censors. The extended preventive and repressive censorship spawned the phenomenon of self-censorship whose scale has yet to be fully assessed. The detailed research into literary censorship so far allows one to claim that in the discussed period, it is exactly this phenomenon that caused most damage, limiting the freedom of creative expression on a scale that is difficult to estimate.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2025 Dobrochna Dabert
• Date:
  2025.12.05
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł recenzowany
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Poznań Polish Studies. Literary Series; No. 48 (2025): Ludzie książki; 229-270;
  Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka; Nr 48 (2025): Ludzie książki; 229-270;
  2450-4947;
  1233-8680
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/51061/41351
• Subject:
  preventive censorship;
  repressive censorship;
  self-censorship;
  underground publishing;
  Polish literature in the Polish People’s Republic;
  totalitarian system
• Identifier: https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/51061
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text