[bksvol-discuss] Re: WRITERS UNDER SIEGE
- From: "Darrell Shandrow" <darrell.shandrow@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 14:24:21 -0700
Hi Ciara,
I'll tackle that one. Certainly much more interesting than the text on
economics I'm trying to get through at the moment... :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: Ciara Campbell
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:22 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] WRITERS UNDER SIEGE
Hi,
I just started scanning WRITERS UNDER SIEGE
Voices of freedom from around the world
A pen ANTHOLOGY
Edited by Lucy Popescu and Carole Seymour-Jones.
Here's the info
From Publishers Weekly
To mark 85 years of work assuring that oppressed writers are heard in their
home countries and around the world, the literary and human rights organization
PEN presents a collection of essays from some 50 writers; their one common
trait, as noted by Michael Palin in a blurb, is that "they have all been
coerced into not writing." Designed to demonstrate the major ways in which
writers are silenced, shocking and sobering lessons in author suppression are
broken up into sections on prison, death and exile, though the distinction
seems arbitrary; the central theme of oppression weighs much more heavily on
writers' stories than the specific methods employed. It's important, both
thematically and practically, to note that PEN does not differentiate between
the talents and skills of persecuted writers; as such, not every piece
succeeds, and the similarity of the subject matter can make them difficult to
distinguish. But grace notes abound, such as Zimbabwean poet, novelist and
columnist Chenjerai Hove explaining, "every new word and metaphor I create is a
little muscle in the act of pushing the dictatorship away." As an act of
commemoration, as well as a sobering reminder of a world in which writers are
frequently-and all too easily-silenced, this is an exceptional anthology.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All
rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition
Let me know if anybody wants to validate.
Thanks,
Ciara
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