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Human Rights, Suffering, and Aesthetics in Political Prison Literature


Human Rights, Suffering, and Aesthetics in Political Prison Literature



von: Yenna Wu, Simona Livescu, Ramsey Scott, Susan Slyomovics, Eugenio Di Stefano, R Shareah Taleghani, Philip F. Williams

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Verlag: Lexington Books
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 16.06.2011
ISBN/EAN: 9780739167427
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 224

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This interdisciplinary volume of essays studies human rights in political prison literature, while probing 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 demonstrates how literary insight enhances the study of human rights. Covering varied geographical and geopolitical regions, this collection encourages comparative analyses and cross-cultural understanding. Seeking to interrogate linguistic, structural, and cultural constructions of the political prison experience, it highlights the literary aspects without losing sight of the political and the theoretical. The contributors cross various disciplinary boundaries and adopt different interpretive perspectives in analyzing prison narratives, especially memoirs, from such diverse countries as China, Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Romania, Russia, Uruguay, and the U.S. The volume emphasizes the literary works produced since the second half of the twentieth century, particularly since the political seismic shift in 1989. The authors treated range from the canonical to the less well-known: Nawal El Saadawi, Varlam Shalamov, Zhang Xianliang, Cong Weixi, Wumingshi, Carlos Liscano, Fatna El Bouih, Nabil Sulayman, Faraj Bayraqdar, Hasiba 'Abdalrahman, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Nicolae Steinhardt, Irina Ratushinskaya, etc. Critical issues investigated include how the writers represent their sufferings, experiences, and emotions during incarceration; their strategies of survival; and how political prison literature can reveal hidden violations of human rights, while resisting official discourse and serving other functions in society. Examining the commonalities and differences in global experiences of imprisonment, the eight chapters engage with the aesthetics of self-making and resistance, individual and collective memory, denial and conversion, catharsis and redemption, and the experiencing and witnessing of trauma. Topics also include the politics of remembering and the politics of representation, such as the problematic relationship between narrative, language, and representations of torture. Similarly under discussion are prison aesthetics of happiness, the role of spectacle in the criminal justice system, and the intersection of prison, gender, and silences. At a juncture when more and more people all over the world actively defy repressive regimes and demand political reform, this book makes a timely contribution to the advocacy and discourse of universal human rights.
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.
Chapter 1. Probing the Intersections of Human Rights, Suffering, and Aesthetics in Political Prison Narratives: An Introduction
<br>Chapter 2. Reviving Muted Voices: Rhizomatous Forces in Political Prison Literature
<br>Chapter 3. Surviving Traumatic Captivity, Arriving at Wisdom: An Aesthetics of Resistance in Chinese Prison Camp Memoir
<br>Chapter 4. The Argument From Silence: Morocco's Truth Commission and Women Political Prisoners
<br>Chapter 5. The Persistence of Spectacle in PRC Modes of Punishing Criminality and Deviance
<br>Chapter 6. The Cocoons of Language: Torture, Voice, Event
<br>Chapter 7. A Primer for the Politics and Literature of Resistance: Apparitional Subjectivity in
<i>The Collective Autobiography of the New York 21</i>
<br>Chapter 8. Remembering Pain in Uruguay: What Memories Mean in Carlos Liscano's
<i>Truck of Fools</i>
<br>Chapter 9. Deviating from the Norm? Two Easts Testify to a Prison Aesthetics of Happiness
Yenna Wu is a distinguished teaching professor at the University of California, Riverside. Simona Livescu is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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