Politics of Cruelty

An Essay on the Literature of Political Imprisonment

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1995-06-17
Mått:139 x 208 x 22 mm
Vikt:309 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:WW Norton & Co
ISBN:9780393313123

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Sociologi och antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

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Influential feminist writer Kate Millett (1934—2017) was the author of numerous books including Sexual Politics, The Politics of Cruelty, Flying Sita, The Basement, and The Loony Bin Trip. Millett was a founder of the Millett Center for the Arts in Poughkeepsie, New York.