The Beloved
Michael Ignatieff, 6 February 1997
Giving Offence: Essays on Censorship
by J.M. Coetzee.
Chicago, 289 pp., $27.50, March 1996,0 226 11174 1 Show More
by J.M. Coetzee.
Chicago, 289 pp., $27.50, March 1996,
“... was itself censored.’ Censorship is ashamed of itself. It is also ridiculous: a censor, J.M. Coetzee writes, is like a man trying to stop his penis from standing up. To censor is to give proof that one is in the grip of that which one wishes to forbid others desiring. Not even feminist critics of pornography like the philosopher Catharine MacKinnon ... ”