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Une censure totale? L'Église québécoise et la nationalisation de l'imaginaire littéraire (1920-1929)
More informationNumerous instances of clerical censorship conclusively demonstrate that, at the turn of the 20th century, the Roman clergy were determined to control literary output. But it does seem rather hazardous to speak of censorship — even less total censorship — as still being exercised by the clergy during the years 1920-1929, since not a single overt act of censorship took place during the ten-year span. All the same, we must not conclude that censorship didn't exist any more. As this paper will show, a new form of censorship was instituted, of an altogether more pervasive kind. It aimed at homogenizing the productions of the creative spirit, thereby prompting the rise of a literature singularly lacking in variety, and whose very sameness was calculated to stifle debate. We cannot be far wrong in regarding this censorship as total, since it sought dominion over the mind rather than the printed page.
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