Writers in prison

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Writers in prison

Ioan Davies

New York, USA : Basil Blackwell, 1990

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references

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ISBN 9780631168294

Description

Solzhenitsyn, Rosa Luxembourg, Boethius, Bunyan, Gramsei, Genet, Osip and Nadezha Mandlestam, Breyten Breytenbach, the Rosenbergs, Dostoievski: all of these authors wrote at times, and frequently for sustained periods, within conditions of enforced incarceration "writers in prison" is a study of writers who are sent to prison, of prisoners who become writers, and of the metaphors drawn from prison which influence our conceptions of everyday life. Ranging widely across history, the author charts the individual's impulse to survive through texts, through song, and through reclaiming his or her own voice against the imposition of other voices and other texts.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Themes: prison writing - margin and centre
  • situating the subject
  • the consolations of philosophy
  • violent space. Part 2: Narratives: text/anti-text
  • underground man/hollow man/time of the hero
  • riven situations
  • death row
  • final solutions
  • Part 3 Conclusion: inscribing the everyday.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780631168317

Description

Solzhenitsyn, Rosa Luxembourg, Boethius, Bunyan, Gramsci, Genet, Osip and Nadezha Mandlestam, Breyten Breytenbach, the Rosenbergs, Dostoievski: all of these authors wrote at times, and frequently for sustained periods, within conditions of enforced incarceration. Writers in Prison is an enthralling study of writers who are sent to prison, of prisoners who become writers, and of the metaphors drawn from prison which influence our conceptions of everyday life. Ranging widely across history, Ioan Davies charts the individual's impulse to survive through texts, through song, and through reclaiming his or her own voice against the imposition of other voices and other texts.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Themes: prison writing - margin and centre
  • situating the subject
  • the consolations of philosophy
  • violent space. Part 2: Narratives: text/anti-text
  • underground man/hollow man/time of the hero
  • riven situations
  • death row
  • final solutions
  • Part 3 Conclusion: inscribing the everyday.

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