Censorship and Self-Censorship of Thought and Literature in the First Pahlavi Period
Tārīkh-i pizishkī i.e., Medical History,
Vol. 14 (1401),
31 August 2022
,
Page 1-16
https://doi.org/10.22037/mhj.v14i.38704
Abstract
Background and Aim: Censorship and self-censorship in Iranian thought and literature reach thousands of years ago due to the background of patriarchal thinking. Which in the Qajar period and constitutionalism, took on more formal and systematic aspects and finally in the first Pahlavi period, became one of the living areas of the government.
Methods: This research is of theoretical type and the research method is descriptive-analytical and the method of data collection is library and has been done by referring to documents, books and articles.
Ethical Considerations: In order to organize this research, while observing the authenticity of the texts, honesty and fidelity have been observed.
Results: The findings of the present study show that all methods of censorship have been used in this period; Including overt, legal: Passing an audit law, establishing a think tank..., illegal: Assassinations, deportations and imprisonments without trial, overt: Using Reza Shahi's propaganda machine in the education system and national media and using the power of indoctrination.
Conclusion: Censorship as an extra-textual factor in the first Pahlavi period changed the worldview of poets and writers and led them to social poetry and committed literature, the emergence of degenerate poetic currents, the spread of literature and literature to safe literary and historical research. Self-censorship as an in-text factor, the evolution of the poetic form and the formation of a new (free) poetry format, the use of symbolic language, especially natural symbolism (such as the frequency of the night symbol) to express deep social concepts, attention to human values in poetry and strengthening It caused a dimension of thinking parallel to the emotional dimension.
- Censorship
- Pahlavi I
- Reza Shah
- Literature
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