This book presents two systems of censorship and literary promotion, revealing how
literature can be molded to support authoritarian regimes. The issue is complex in that at a
descriptive level the strategies and methods new states use to control communication
through the written word can be judged by how and when formal decrees were issued, and
how publishing media, whether in the form of publishing companies or at the individual
level, engaged with political overseers. But equally, literature was a means of resistance …

A partir de tres partes interrelacionadas, se traza, en primer lugar, un estudio comparado de
las dos dictaduras antiliberales encabezadas por Francisco Franco y Getúlio Vargas,
realizando, concomitantemente, un estudio sobre dos movimientos fascistas, la Falange
Española y la Ação Integralista Brasileira, y se examina la importancia de ambos
movimientos en el proceso de fascistización de la cultura en este periodo. En un segundo
momento, se analizan las políticas censoras en relación con el libro y las herramientas …