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pb |
| ISBN: |
9780819562586 |
| Publisher: |
Wesleyan |
| Release Date: |
2003-12-21 |
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ITEM OVERVIEW
In a groundbreaking book, Harlow examines writings by and about women political prisoners—in Northern Ireland, Palestine, El Salvador, Egypt, South Africa, and the United States. Simultaneously a work of feminism, social history, cultural studies, and literary criticism, Barred examines both the writings themselves and the social and political contexts that give rise to them. Her analysis calls into question many assumptions about the nature of literature and literary production and about the role of literature in historical and political contexts. Harlow describes the dynamics of resistance movements and political detention, the educational and social role of prison, and the place and treatment of women as political prisoners. She surveys a wide variety of texts by and about these women, offering both her own critical readings and portrayals of the reception such texts receive within prisons (by other detainees and by interrogators and torturers) and in the outside world. She describes the movements these women support, circumstances of their incarceration, and ways in which the experience of prison forces them to examine and recast their traditional gender roles.
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