"The Lottery"

"The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson. Banned in South Africa during Apartheid.

Its significance comes from how questions of race, empire, or hierarchy remain live enough to provoke official suppression. As a short story, 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 South Africa. The present page is a dossier starter built from source-tracked ban records; the surviving note currently says: Banned in South Africa during Apartheid. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.

"The Lottery" entered censorship debates as a short story associated with history, political memory, and race. In the current dossier, the main state objections cluster around political sensitivity and racial politics.

The earliest event currently captured here is Date not yet pinned down in South Africa, where South Africa authorities banned publication or circulation. Banned in South Africa during Apartheid. Banned in South Africa during Apartheid.

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.

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