First published in 1989, this title presents the English prison system in the words of those who had endured it as prisoners or who had worked within it. First-hand accounts of life inside chronicle the empty routines of the prison day and tell...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jul-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271097350)
Analyzes prison letters from early modern England to explore the enduring features of this literary form within an evolving context of reform and revolution--...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores 50 years of Irish womens prison writing, 1960s-2010s, connecting the work of women leaders and writers in the Six Counties of Ireland during the Troubles. ...Lasīt vairāk
Arising from a National Writing Competition in 2022-3 on the theme of Endurance, this collection of works by serving prisoners relates both to the deepest of human tragedies and the greatest of triumphs. Contributors describe what endurance means...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1989, this title presents the English prison system in the words of those who had endured it as prisoners or who had worked within it. First-hand accounts of life inside chronicle the empty routines of the prison day and tell...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores 50 years of Irish womens prison writing, 1960s-2010s, connecting the work of women leaders and writers in the Six Counties of Ireland during the Troubles. This book explores 50 years of Irish womens prison writ...Lasīt vairāk
A collection of 20 pieces by people in prison and on probation, covering the theme of hope. Explores aspects of prisons, the criminal justice system, and rehabilitation....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-May-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700632152)
Since 2001, poet and professor Brian Daldorph has taught a creative writing class at the Douglas County Jail in Lawrence, Kansas. During this time he has worked with thousands of inmates, helping them to find the words to express their struggles whi...Lasīt vairāk
The international literary sensation, a devastating true story of survival from illegally imprisoned refugee Behrouz Boochani, written on a mobile phone....Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Feb-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781788746472)
This book examines a selection of prison memoirs by five renowned African writers Ngugi wa Thiongo, Ruth First, Wole Soyinka, Nawal El Saadawi and Jack Mapanje who were detained from the 1960s onward due to their political engagement....Lasīt vairāk
The first translation of painter and writer Józef Czapskis inspiring lectures on Proust, first delivered in a prison camp in the Soviet Union during World War II.During the Second World War, as a prisoner of war in a Soviet cam...Lasīt vairāk
Offering insight into the unseen world of life in prison, this book presents a broad range of first-hand testimonies of people writing from prisons and concentration camps over a number of centuries and from different countries. Organised thematicall...Lasīt vairāk
This collection of prison writings straddles two continents, and compares and contrasts the political struggles that gave birth to two vibrant new democracies of the twenty-first century: South Africa and the Czech Republic. The triumph over decad...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Jul-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300209310)
A poignant collection of letters written by the Latvian poet, novelist, and newspaper editor Arsenii Formakov while interned in Soviet labor camps Emily Johnson has translated and edited a fascinating collection of letters wri...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-May-2008, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, ISBN-13: 9781868423224)
When I first arrived at Groot Drakenstein Prison I saw fifteen prisoners, reduced to a brutal sameness by the orange or the blue uniforms, by the obedient way in which incarcerated men shuffled from one place to another at the order of a guard, by m...Lasīt vairāk
