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Human Rights, Suffering, and Aesthetics in Political Prison Literature by Yenna Wu (editor), Simona Livescu (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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

Who reads Human Rights, Suffering, and Aesthetics in Political Prison Literature?

Author

Yenna Wu (editor), Simona Livescu (editor)

Publisher

Lexington Books/Fortress Academic

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780739186169

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, History, Social_sciences