Transformácie cenzúry v súčasnom literárnom diskurze (s príkladmi zo slovenského kultúrneho prostredia)

Since the 1990s, literary censorship has been a focus of scholars not only in terms of literaryhistory but also as a specific literary-theoretical problem. Czech literary studies entered thenew discourse on censorship in 2015 with an extensive two-part monograph on censorshipand social regulation of Czech literature between 1749–2014, published by the Institute forCzech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences. This study follows upon the above-mentionedproject, in particular the research mapping censorship mechanisms after 1989 in Slovakia.It draws from the theoretical works of Pierre Bourdieu, who sees censorship not exclusivelyas a legal authority that sanctions and punishes, but as a field that behaves similarlyto the market. In this sense we can talk about a socially authorized discourse rather thancensorship. The study includes some censorship “cases” from post-1989 Slovakia (concerningthe authors Martin Kasarda, Peter Pišťanek and Dušan Taragel) that have been seen as effortsby certain religious groups to regulate cultural and literary processes.