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This interdisciplinary volume of essays studies human rights in political prison literature, while examining 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 makes a timely contribution to the advocacy and discourse of universal human rights by demonstrating how literary insight enhances the study of this field and encouraging comparative analyses and cross-cultural understanding.
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Yenna Wu is a distinguished teaching professor at the University of California, Riverside.
Simona Livescu is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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