| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 216 p.) |
| Contents |
Preface / Yenna Wu -- Introduction / Yenna Wu -- Reviving muted voices : rhizomatous forces in political prison literature / Yenna Wu -- Surviving traumatic captivity, arriving at wisdom : an aesthetics of resistance in Chinese prison camp memoir / Yenna Wu -- The argument from silence : Morocco's Truth Commission and women political prisoners / Susan Slyomovics -- The persistence of spectacle in PRC modes of punishing criminality and deviance / Philip F. Williams -- The cocoons of language : torture, voice, event / R. Shareah Taleghani -- A primer for the politics and literature of resistance : apparitional subjectivity in The collective autobiography of the New York 21 / Ramsey Scott -- Remembering pain in Uruguay : what memories mean in Carlos Liscano's Truck of fools / Eugenio Di Stefano -- Deviating from the norm? Two easts testify to a prison aesthetics of happiness / Simona Livescu |
| Summary |
This interdisciplinary volume of essays studies human rights in political prison literature, while examining the intersections of suffering, politics, and aesthetics in an interliterary and intercultural context. As the first book to explore the concept of global aesthetics in political prison narratives, it makes a timely contribution to the advocacy and discourse of universal human rights by demonstrating how literary insight enhances the study of this field and encouraging comparative analyses and cross-cultural understanding |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Political prisoners -- Civil rights
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Prisoners' writings -- History and criticism
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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Political prisoners -- Civil rights
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Prisoners' writings
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Politischer Gefangener.
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Menschenrecht.
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Motiv.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wu, Yenna
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Livescu, Simona, 1969-
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| LC no. |
2021697849 |
| ISBN |
9780739167427 |
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0739167421 |
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1283111381 |
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9781283111386 |
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9786613111388 |
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6613111384 |
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