Garrido Castellano, CarlosPérez Isasi, Santiago2018-08-292018-08-292017Isasi, Santiago Pérez e Garrido Castellano, Carlos. "Introductory Note". Interlitteraria Vol 22, No 1 (2017): p. 5-7. Special issue on "Creation, Political Repression and Censorship in the Iberian and Ibero-American context".1406-07012228-4729http://hdl.handle.net/10451/34678The dossier presented in this issue of Interlitteraria analyzes the complex relation between literary and artistic practices, and the situations of censorship and political repression suffered, opposed or responded to, in Lusophone and Hispanophone contexts during the 20th and 21st centuries. Even if many of the case studies deal with Iberian and Ibero-American dictatorships, with this special issue we want to reflect on the concepts of “repression” and “censorship” beyond the scope of authoritarian regimes, for these are processes that manifest themselves in different forms and also in apparently or superficially democratic scenarios. In fact, Iberian and Latin American contexts offer good examples of the persistence of patterns of rejection, repression and censorship in recent times, as well as of the range and potentialities of artistic and creative responses to these patterns. In both cases, we find models and manifestations of “direct violence”, but also more complex and concealed articulations leading to more subtle, and sometimes more dangerous ways, of censorship. From that viewpoint, this special issue discusses topics such as the individual construction of memories of political violence; the reflection of the artists’ own role in a context of repression, or the possibilities of artistic creation as self-affirmation against censorship.engjournal articlehttps://doi.org/10.12697/IL.2017.22.1.1