[bksvol-discuss] WRITERS UNDER SIEGE
- From: "Ciara Campbell" <50campbell@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 17:22:07 -0400
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 (c) 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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