{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMillett, Kate:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Influential feminist writer \u003cstrong\u003eKate Millett\u003c\/strong\u003e (1934--2017) was the author of numerous books including \u003cem\u003eSexual Politics\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Politics of Cruelty\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFlying Sita\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Basement\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Loony Bin Trip\u003c\/em\u003e. Millett was a founder of the Millett Center for the Arts in Poughkeepsie, New York.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460176974098,"sku":"9780393313123","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a7df2a15-17a6-46b2-a4ba-b8ff755a3d9e.jpg?v=1730032532","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-politics-of-cruelty-an-essay-on-the-literature-of-political-imprisonment-9780393313123","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}