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Obscene Literature: Norms and Laws
From: Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature
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This chapter will discuss the introduction of modern obscenity laws; that is, formal censorship of the erotic, with special focus on the intricate relationship between laws and norms, formal censorship, and self-censorship. A comparative discussion of the Israeli case will follow.
Contributors
Nitsa Ben-Ari
Dr. Nitsa Ben-Ari teaches Translation Studies in Tel Aviv University, and is head of Diploma Studies for Translation and Revision in the TAU School for Cultural Studies. major work is in the study of translation norms, currently into research of ideological manipulation and subversion of translated literature. translated 25 books from English, French, German and Italian into Hebrew, among them Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Jazz, Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, Albert Cohen’s Le Livre de ma mère and O Vous, frères humains, Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, Patrick Süskind’s Das Parfum and Natalia Ginzburg’s All Our Yesterdays. 1995-2000 chief literary editor at the Zmora-Bitan-Dvir Publishing House.
