Book
Manga: The Monster Book of Manga
Manga: The Monster Book of Manga is a book by Ikari Studio. The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime.
Description
About the work
Manga: The Monster Book of Manga is a book by Ikari Studio. The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime.
Its interest lies partly in the way literary or informational writing gets collapsed into a public-morality problem. As a book, it can be read not only for subject matter but for the way form, tone, and circulation make a text feel dangerous, intimate, or politically usable to anxious officials.
It also matters as part of a wider censorship history in Wisconsin. The present page is a dossier starter built from source-tracked ban records; the surviving note currently says: The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: DOC 309.04 4. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.
Overview
Why it was banned
Manga: The Monster Book of Manga entered censorship debates as a book associated with morality, print scandal, and sexuality. In the current dossier, the main state objections cluster around obscenity and public morality.
The earliest event currently captured here is Date not yet pinned down in Wisconsin, where Wisconsin corrections agencies and prison mailrooms excluded from prison circulation. The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: DOC 309.04 4. The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: DOC 309.04 4 (c) 8 a. Is Pornography
This entry is still incomplete: more jurisdictions, court orders, and translated justifications should be added over time.
This page is intentionally incomplete. The ban history is a starter dataset, not a final census of every jurisdiction or decree.
Counter and critical readings
Context, rebuttals, and criticism
- Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds Dawn B. Sova
Surveys the legal and moral language used to suppress books as obscene.
- Banned Books: 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. Anne Lyon Haight
Useful for seeing how obscenity law and censorship habits changed over time.
- 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald, and Dawn B. Sova
A compact reference on how censorship systems moved across states, churches, and courts.
Ban history
Known government actions
| Date | Jurisdiction | Action | Reason | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date not yet pinned down | Wisconsin | excluded from prison circulation | The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: DOC 309.04 4. | The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: DOC 309.04 4 (c) 8 a. Is Pornography |
Sources
Harvested references for this page
- The Marshall Project: Banned book lists from 18 states database partial
- Wikipedia REST summary API database partial
- Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds book partial
- Banned Books: 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. book partial
- 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature book partial