It is, in the words of the ted Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya, a passionate, heroic effort to fathom the nature of a phemen that all too often drains us emotionally and incapacitates us intellectually. Millett analyzes the individual's monumental fear of the state through the rich literature of its expression-a mixture of literary text (Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Mathabane's Kaffir Boy, Bharadwaj's film Closet Land), 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 thing is ever the same.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ww Norton & Co
ISBN-10
0393313123
ISBN-13
9780393313123
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104857345
Product Key Features
Author
Kate Millett
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Sociology & Anthropology: Professional
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
NY
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Author Biography
Among Kate Millett's other books are Flying Sita, The Basement, and The Loony Bin Trip. Millett is a founder of the Women's Art Colony in Poughkeepsie, New York. She also lives in New York City.