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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.
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Ioan Davies was Professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought at York University.
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- PublisherWiley–Blackwell
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 063116829X
- ISBN 13 9780631168294
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages242
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