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Giving Offense

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Focusing on the ways authors have traditionally responded to censorship, this is a collection of essays which attempt to understand the motives for censorship. It argues that a society bound by censorship engenders a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalating rivalry.

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Giving Offense, J. M. Coetzee

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1997
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English
Released
1997
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Paperback
Pages
297
ISBN10
0226111768
ISBN13
9780226111766
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Focusing on the ways authors have traditionally responded to censorship, this is a collection of essays which attempt to understand the motives for censorship. It argues that a society bound by censorship engenders a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalating rivalry.