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====Date: [[:Category: | ====Date: [[:Category:1934|1934]]==== | ||
====Region: [[:Category:Australia|Australia]]==== | |||
====Subject: [[:Category:Political/Economic/Social Opinion|Political/Economic/Social Opinion]], [[:Category:Explicit Sexuality|Explicit Sexuality]]==== | |||
====Medium: [[:Category:Literature|Literature]]==== | |||
====Medium: [[:Category:Literature|Literature | |||
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'''Artist:''' J.M. Harcourt | '''Artist:''' J.M. Harcourt | ||
'''Confronting Bodies:''' Australian Trade and Customs Department, Western Australia Police Force | '''Confronting Bodies:''' Australian Trade and Customs Department, Western Australia Police Force | ||
'''Dates of Action:''' 1934 | '''Dates of Action:''' 1934 | ||
'''Location:''' Perth, Australia | '''Location:''' Perth, Australia | ||
'''Description of Artwork:''' ''Upsurge'' is a novel, which teaches working class Australians their potential for a social revolution. It also critiques the bourgeois values through lewd sex scenes. | |||
'''The Incident:''' In July 1934, a group of detectives removed copies of the novel from a Perth bookstore and requested that further copies be handed in to them. Later in the month, the investigation branch of the Attorney General's Department received complaints about the book from the police. All copies were removed from Perth bookstores and Harcourt had to leave Perth (Where he lived) under threats of prosecution. Other cases involving the removal of the book sprung up in other Australian cities and federal authorities received complaints from numerous organizations that the novel was "Communist propaganda" and filled with obscene sexual content. | |||
'''Results of Incident:''' Upsurge was banned in all of Australia in November 1934. The Trade and Customs Department released a report saying that the book was not without merit, but that it was grossly indecent. ''Upsurge'' was not republished until 1986 | |||
'''Results of Incident:''' Upsurge was banned in all of Australia in November 1934. The Trade and Customs Department released a report saying that the book was not without merit, but that it was grossly indecent. | |||
Upsurge was not republished until 1986 | |||
'''Source:''' Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. Ed. Derek Jones. Chicago; London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. | '''Source:''' Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. Ed. Derek Jones. Chicago; London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:59, 2 March 2012
Date: 1934
Region: Australia
Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion, Explicit Sexuality
Medium: Literature
Artist: J.M. Harcourt
Confronting Bodies: Australian Trade and Customs Department, Western Australia Police Force
Dates of Action: 1934
Location: Perth, Australia
Description of Artwork: Upsurge is a novel, which teaches working class Australians their potential for a social revolution. It also critiques the bourgeois values through lewd sex scenes.
The Incident: In July 1934, a group of detectives removed copies of the novel from a Perth bookstore and requested that further copies be handed in to them. Later in the month, the investigation branch of the Attorney General's Department received complaints about the book from the police. All copies were removed from Perth bookstores and Harcourt had to leave Perth (Where he lived) under threats of prosecution. Other cases involving the removal of the book sprung up in other Australian cities and federal authorities received complaints from numerous organizations that the novel was "Communist propaganda" and filled with obscene sexual content.
Results of Incident: Upsurge was banned in all of Australia in November 1934. The Trade and Customs Department released a report saying that the book was not without merit, but that it was grossly indecent. Upsurge was not republished until 1986
Source: Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. Ed. Derek Jones. Chicago; London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
