Wahrheit und Gewalt: Der Diskurs der Folter
Cruel Britannia: Sarah Kane's Postmodern Traumatics examines four pplays by British playwright Sarah Kane (1971-1999), all written between 1995 and 1999 within the context of the "Cool Britannia," or "In-Yer-Face" London theatre movement of the 1990s. Kane's plays were notorious…
"Cruel Britannia : Sarah Kane's Postmodern Traumatics examines four plays by British playwright Sarah Kane (1971--1999), all written between 1995 and 1999 within the context of the "Cool Britannia", or "In-Yer-Face" London theatre movement of the 1990s. Kane's plays were notorio…
"From Nan Hereford, the cloaked highwayman who held up coaches with just her fists, to the woman who survived the gallows and took her empty coffin away with her, this title illuminates history's darker periods with a detailed and factual approach"--Page 4 of cover. Covers sele…
"A Terrifying and deeply moving account of a man and a country still brutalized by the politics of fear." Clive Stafford Smith, Director of Reprieve and author of Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay and the secret prisons. "This remarkable, humane story of abuse and survival across Iranian…
Houshang Asadi was a journalist, writer, and translator who, under the Shah's regime, was a prison cellmate of Ali Khamenei (appointed successor to the Ayatollah Khomeini). After Asadi's arrest in 1983 in a crackdown on opposition parties, the prominent Iranian journalist spent …
