{"product_id":"the-politics-of-cruelty-an-essay-on-the-literature-of-political-imprisonment-9780393313123","title":"The Politics of Cruelty: An Essay on the Literature of Political Imprisonment","description":"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Millett analyzes the individual's monumental fear of the state through the rich literature of its expression--a mixture of literary text (Solzhenitsyn's \u003cem\u003eThe Gulag Archipelago\u003c\/em\u003e, Mathabane's \u003cem\u003eKaffir Boy\u003c\/em\u003e, Bharadwaj's film \u003cem\u003eCloset Land\u003c\/em\u003e), 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Millett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.19h x 5.48w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393313123","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43256154488969,"sku":"9780393313123","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_0f69e17b-c3bd-4aeb-8509-d2406f93f5dd.jpg?v=1736237839","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-politics-of-cruelty-an-essay-on-the-literature-of-political-imprisonment-9780393313123","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}