CENSOR – AUTHOR – TEXT. THE ACT OF CENSORSING IN THE LITERARY CENSORSHIP OF THE FRANCO REGIME

Abstract

The production of narrative texts under repressive conditions with its related textual interventions in form of self-censorship by the author and deletion by the censor, constitutes a process which is determined by various unknown and invisible variables. Using the example of the franquist censorship in Spain (1939–1975), the reciprocal relation between author and censor is to be examined. Thereby, the act of censoring will be analyzed as an investigation procedure, that is characterized and regulated by particular configurations of power. The positioning and functioning of the censor, the role of the author in the dictatorial context of censorship as well as the emanating inter- and counterdependent relationship between both are here of particular importance.