Censorship and Ingenious Dramatic Strategies in Yugoslav Theatre (1945–1991)
Keywords:
literature and censorship, Yugoslavia, Yugoslav drama, Yugoslav theatre, dissidenceAbstract
This paper explores unfamiliar aspects of censorship in post-war Yugoslav theatre. The country had no institutionalized censorship, and what was tolerated at one moment became prohibited the next. Furthermore, the federal structure and increasing rivalry between the party elites in the six republics led to varying standards: a publication banned in one republic could be published in another, and a banned production could be transferred to another republic and even win a prize there. Nevertheless, informal political censorship exerted very powerful restrictions on the intellectual and artistic freedom of Yugoslav theatre artists.References
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