The politics of cruelty : an essay on the literature of political imprisonment
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The politics of cruelty : an essay on the literature of political imprisonment
(Penguin social sciences)
Penguin, 1995
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
First published, 1994
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work sets out a theory of politics of our time and offers a view of the modern state based on the practice of torture as a method of rule, as conscious policy. In assuming the power of torture over its citizens, government has made itself omnipotent, threatening the social and political progess of centuries. In many places throughout the world, the individual is faced with monumental force, and fear of the state has become the condition of our time. This book analyzes that fear through the literature of its expression, a mixture of literary text, the reports of witnesses, legal theory and historical account. It is the literary version of experience that prevails and persuades with the greatest effect: the reality of the victim; the social and psychological climate of life under dictatorship; and the moment of arrest and capture.
Table of Contents
- The mechanism: Solzhenitsyn and the creation of the Gulag
- the Nazi camp system
- Henri Alleg and colonialism in Algeria
- the British in Ireland
- the apartheid system in South Africa. The imagination: photography - the xperience of shock
- closet land - state and sexual authority
- the extreme experience of solitude - Aurobindo
- Ngugi, Nien Cheng. Recent politics of cruelty in action: the little school - Argentine and Brazil
- the death of a Guatemalan village - El Salvador
- state torture and religion - the torture of children.
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