عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
LA120392
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Incarceration and Torture in Eastern African Fiction
General Material Designation
[Article]
First Statement of Responsibility
Annie Gagiano
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
This article assesses representations of imprisonment without trial and inmates' torture in three novels depicting severely repressive, murderous regimes-Malawi's under Hastings Banda, Ethiopia's under the Derg, and Kenya's under colonial and successive post-colonial rulers. In The Detainee (Kayira 1974), the narrative of a naïve, apolitical villager's unjust detention highlights unrestrained power abuse through minions and gradually uncovers atrocities. Under the Lion's Gaze (Mengiste 2010) depicts several visceral, appalling scenes of torture as a technique of intimidation. Dust (Owuor 2014) has fewer, but harrowingly intense scenes of pain infliction on prisoners as a political tool to silence opposition. All three texts establish their importance as archival evaluations of under-reported regimes, African literary artworks, and morally responsible evocations of undeserved suffering, communicating effectively with both local and international readerships.
SET
Date of Publication
2018
Physical description
128-151
Title
Matatu
Volume Number
50/1
International Standard Serial Number
1875-7421
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Banda
Subject Term
colonialism
Subject Term
Derg
Subject Term
incarceration
Subject Term
Mau Mau
Subject Term
postcolonial
Subject Term
silencing
Subject Term
torture
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Annie Gagiano
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
Call Number
10.1163/18757421-05001003
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب p
[Article]
275578
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Y
