Incarceration and Torture in Eastern African Fiction
نام عام مواد
[Article]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Annie Gagiano
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
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.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2018
توصيف ظاهري
128-151
عنوان
Matatu
شماره جلد
50/1
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1875-7421
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Banda
اصطلاح موضوعی
colonialism
اصطلاح موضوعی
Derg
اصطلاح موضوعی
incarceration
اصطلاح موضوعی
Mau Mau
اصطلاح موضوعی
postcolonial
اصطلاح موضوعی
silencing
اصطلاح موضوعی
torture
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