[bksvol-discuss] Re: WRITERS UNDER SIEGE
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 02:14:33 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks for letting us know, Ciara.
G. Cindy
--- On Wed, 5/21/08, Ciara Campbell <50campbell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Ciara Campbell <50campbell@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] WRITERS UNDER SIEGE
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 2:22 PM
> 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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