Writers In Prison - Softcover

DAVIES

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631168311 ISBN 13: 9780631168317

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1990

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.

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About the Author:

Ioan Davies was Professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought at York University.

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