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The Politics of Cruelty: An Essay on the Literature of Political Imprisonment

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It is, in the words of the noted Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya, "a passionate, heroic effort to fathom the nature of a phenomenon that all too often drains us emotionally and incapacitates us intellectually."

Millett analyzes the individual's monumental fear of the state through the rich literature of its expression—a mixture of literary text , the reports of witnesses, legal theory, and historical account. The literary version of their experience is the most arresting; it prevails and persuades with the greatest effect: the reality of the victim, the social and psychological climate of life under dictatorship, the moment of capture when one is "disappeared," that pivotal electronic second after which nothing is ever the same.

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: June 17, 1995

ISBN: 0393313123

ISBN 13: 9780393313123

The Politics of Cruelty: An Essay on the Literature of Political Imprisonment

3.8/5 ( ratings)

It is, in the words of the noted Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya, "a passionate, heroic effort to fathom the nature of a phenomenon that all too often drains us emotionally and incapacitates us intellectually."

Millett analyzes the individual's monumental fear of the state through the rich literature of its expression—a mixture of literary text , the reports of witnesses, legal theory, and historical account. The literary version of their experience is the most arresting; it prevails and persuades with the greatest effect: the reality of the victim, the social and psychological climate of life under dictatorship, the moment of capture when one is "disappeared," that pivotal electronic second after which nothing is ever the same.

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: June 17, 1995

ISBN: 0393313123

ISBN 13: 9780393313123

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