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portada the politics of cruelty: an essay on the literature of political imprisonment
Type
Physical Book
Year
1995
Language
English
Pages
336
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.8 x 13.9 x 2.2 cm
Weight
0.31 kg.
ISBN
0393313123
ISBN13
9780393313123

the politics of cruelty: an essay on the literature of political imprisonment

Kate Millett (Author) · W. W. Norton & Company · Paperback

the politics of cruelty: an essay on the literature of political imprisonment - Millett, Kate

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Synopsis "the politics of cruelty: an essay on the literature of political imprisonment"

It is, in the words of the noted Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya, a passionate, heroic effort to fathom the nature of a phenomenon that all too often drains us emotionally and incapacitates us intellectually. Millett analyzes the individual's monumental fear of the state through the rich literature of its expression--a mixture of literary text (Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Mathabane's Kaffir Boy, Bharadwaj's film Closet Land), the reports of witnesses, legal theory, and historical account. The literary version of their experience is the most arresting; it prevails and persuades with the greatest effect: the reality of the victim, the social and psychological climate of life under dictatorship, the moment of capture when one is disappeared, that pivotal electronic second after which nothing is ever the same.

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