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English Siege and Prison Writings

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131530077X
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book English Siege and Prison Writings written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings – composed during and after imprisonment and in conditions of siege. Writings from the ‘Mutiny’ of 1857 are well known, but there exists a vast body of texts, from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Burma, and the Indian subcontinent, that have rarely been compiled or examined. Written in anxiety and distress, or recalled with poignancy and anger, these siege narratives depict a very different Briton. A far cry from the triumphant conqueror, explorer or ruler, these texts give us the vulnerable, injured and frightened Englishman and woman who seek, in the most adverse of conditions, to retain a measure of stoicism and identity. From Robert Knox’s 17th-century account of imprisonment in Sri Lanka, through J. Z. Holwell’s famous account of the ‘Black Hole’ of Calcutta, through Florentia Sale’s Afghan memoir, and Lady Inglis’s ‘Mutiny’ diary from Lucknow, the book opens up a dark and revealing corner of the colonial archive. Lucid and intriguing, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asia, colonial history, literary and culture studies.

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

Author : Ruth Ahnert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107435455
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century written by Ruth Ahnert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. In the previous centuries we find only isolated examples of prison writings, but the religious and political instability of the Tudor reigns provided the conditions for the practice to thrive. This book shows the wide variety of genres that prisoners wrote, and it explores the subtle tricks they employed in order to appropriate the site of the prison for their own agendas. Ahnert charts the spreading influence of such works beyond the prison cell, tracing the textual communities they constructed, and the ways in which writings were smuggled out of prison and then disseminated through script and print.

Prison Writings in 20th Century America

Author : H. Bruce Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780141180663
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Prison Writings in 20th Century America written by H. Bruce Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jail Journeys

Author : Philip Priestley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780415034586
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Jail Journeys written by Philip Priestley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Domesticity, the Social Scene and Leisure

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9354358705
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Domesticity, the Social Scene and Leisure written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of “discovery” and exploration – fauna and flora, geography, climate – the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes – including the “Mutiny” of 1857-58 – and the “civilisational mission”. Volume 3 Domesticity, the Social Scene and Leisure shifts the focus to the English home and social life. Domesticity, often a fraught exercise for the 'memsahib', carried on with the assistance of a retinue of Indian servants, meant tackling corruption, inefficiency and the all-pervasive social hierarchy of the colonised. Advice books were produced to aid the memsahib for this purpose. The Steel-Gardiner guide to housekeeping, which was a bestseller in its day and is excerpted here, was indispensable in the length and breadth of its coverage, from the care of children to the right wages for the servants. Diver's text, likewise, also demonstrates how running the home was difficult and has a resonance with the (male) dominion of running the Empire. These texts exhorted the English woman to practice thrift, control and managerial skills, to be aware of the natives' penchant for dirt and indolence and the caste-community dynamics that inform the servant-class.

Rebellions and Wars

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9354359108
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Rebellions and Wars written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of “discovery” and exploration – fauna and flora, geography, climate – the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes – including the “Mutiny” of 1857-58 – and the “civilisational mission”. Volume 4 Rebellions and Wars is a collection of accounts of a very different British life in India: as prisoners, under siege and in conditions of war. The British ascendancy in India did not proceed smoothly, and colonisation was always a militarised zone of interest, action and process.

‘Discoveries’, Explorations and the Imperial Survey

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9354356508
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book ‘Discoveries’, Explorations and the Imperial Survey written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of “discovery” and exploration – fauna and flora, geography, climate – the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes – including the “Mutiny” of 1857-58 – and the “civilisational mission”. Volume 1 'Discoveries', Explorations and the Imperial Survey consists of documents that deal with England's discovery of India, its exploration and mapping of the subcontinent. The texts collected here are accounts of how the British 'discovered' the subcontinent. The narrative of discovery, with the freshness of the 'new', was couched very often in the rhetoric of wonder. But this sense of wonder, even astonishment in some cases at the variety, magnitude and sheer difference of the land and its people, was tempered over time with a narrative of exploration. If the 'discovery' moment had a surprise, awe and a sense of uncertainty at facing something totally new-which, in many ways, the subcontinent was-in the early writings of the seventeenth century, the tone, emphasis and attitude shifts later on.

Indian People and Society

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9354356664
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Indian People and Society written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of “discovery” and exploration – fauna and flora, geography, climate – the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes – including the “Mutiny” of 1857-58 – and the “civilisational mission”. Volume 2 Indian People and Society includes English studies of Indian languages, people and communities, and the social order. The landscape provided, understandably, endless prospects of the survey and the map. But the British were also keen on documenting the people. In the studies generated for 400 years, the British documented castes, religions, education, economies, professions, cultural practices, states of health and sickness, and other domains. With projects like the Census and the People of India, the land's inhabitants were classified and, eventually, also typecast and contributed to the colonial discourse about the native/colonised.

The ‘Civilisational Mission’

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 935435839X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book The ‘Civilisational Mission’ written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of “discovery” and exploration – fauna and flora, geography, climate – the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes – including the “Mutiny” of 1857-58 – and the “civilisational mission”. Volume 5 The 'Civilisational Mission' documents England's social reform and other efforts at 'improving' the colonised. The British, like other Europeans in Africa and Asian colonies, explained, defended and promoted their presence and action by presenting themselves in the role of the civilisers.

Thugs and Dacoits

Author :
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9394701974
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Thugs and Dacoits written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes focus on select aspects of the British imperial archives: the accounts of discovery and exploration fauna and flora, geography, climate the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes including the Mutiny of 1857-58 and the civilisational mission. This volume documents how the practice of thuggee was viewed by the British before: as if it symbolized everything that was wrong with the social order in India. The texts collected here are accounts of how the British 'discovered' the subcontinent. The narrative of discovery, with the freshness of the 'new', was couched very often in the rhetoric of wonder. But this sense of wonder, even astonishment in some cases at the variety, magnitude and sheer difference of the land and its people, was tempered over time with a narrative of exploration.

Prison Writings in 20th-Century America

Author : H. Bruce Franklin
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417703845
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Prison Writings in 20th-Century America written by H. Bruce Franklin and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection dramatizes the history of the modern American prison with more than 60 selections--memoirs, stories, novels, poems--written in the last 100 years.

Eleven Days in Hell

Author : William T. Harper
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574411802
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Eleven Days in Hell written by William T. Harper and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation "The 1974 Fred Gomez Carrasco prison siege at Huntsville, TX.".

Ireland’s Imperial Connections, 1775–1947

Author : Daniel Sanjiv Roberts
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030259846
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Ireland’s Imperial Connections, 1775–1947 written by Daniel Sanjiv Roberts and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores the complexities of Irish involvement in empire. Despite complaining regularly of treatment as a colony by England, Ireland nevertheless played a significant part in Britain’s imperialism, from its formative period in the late eighteenth century through to the decolonizing years of the early twentieth century. Framed by two key events of world history, the American Revolution and Indian Independence, this book examines Irish involvement in empire in several interlinked sections: through issues of migration and inhabitation; through literary and historical representations of empire; through Irish support for imperialism and involvement with resistance movements abroad; and through Irish participation in the extensive and intricate networks of empire. Informed by recent historiographical and theoretical perspectives, and including several detailed archival investigations, this volume offers an interdisciplinary and evolving view of a burgeoning field of research and will be of interest to scholars of Irish studies, imperial and postcolonial studies, history and literature.

The Raj

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9354355633
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book The Raj written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a cultural history of the British Empire in India presented through ten key non-literary texts. Each of these texts embodies a particular attitude, ideology and/or development in imperial thinking, administrative process or cultural practices, and it is this attitude, ideology and development that the book unpacks through a reading of the texts, along with excerpts from the original documents. The aim is to flag and signpost momentous events and ideas through imperial texts such as J.Z. Holwell's 1756 account of the Black Hole of Calcutta, T.B. Macaulay's 1835 'Minute' on Indian education and Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner's 1888 advice book on colonial domesticity, The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook. Through this book, it is hoped, the reader will get a flavour and glimpse of the complex and complicated structure that was the Raj. The book will appeal not only to the academic audience and literary scholars keen on the rhetoric of empire but also to the general, informed readers.

States of Siege

Author : Bert Useem
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195360990
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book States of Siege written by Bert Useem and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-07-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines case studies of recent prison riots in five states, including the 1971 radical uprising in Attica, New York, and the infamous 1981 bloodbath at the New Mexico Penitentiary. The most extensive and detailed work yet written on US prison riots, the authors explain the occurrence and variations of riots as a reflection of the administrative breakdown of the prison system within a changing ideological context. A theoretical appendix helps make this work an ideal introduction to sociological theories of collective action.

Human Rights, Suffering, and Aesthetics in Political Prison Literature

Author : Yenna Wu
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739167421
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights, Suffering, and Aesthetics in Political Prison Literature written by Yenna Wu and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume of essays studies human rights in political prison literature, while probing the intersections of suffering, politics, and aesthetics in an interliterary and intercultural context. As the first book to explore the concept of global aesthetics in political prison narratives, it demonstrates how literary insight enhances the study of human rights. Covering varied geographical and geopolitical regions, this collection encourages comparative analyses and cross-cultural understanding. Seeking to interrogate linguistic, structural, and cultural constructions of the political prison experience, it highlights the literary aspects without losing sight of the political and the theoretical. The contributors cross various disciplinary boundaries and adopt different interpretive perspectives in analyzing prison narratives, especially memoirs, from such diverse countries as China, Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Romania, Russia, Uruguay, and the U.S. The volume emphasizes the literary works produced since the second half of the twentieth century, particularly since the political seismic shift in 1989. The authors treated range from the canonical to the less well-known: Nawal El Saadawi, Varlam Shalamov, Zhang Xianliang, Cong Weixi, Wumingshi, Carlos Liscano, Fatna El Bouih, Nabil Sulayman, Faraj Bayraqdar, Hasiba 'Abdalrahman, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Nicolae Steinhardt, Irina Ratushinskaya, etc. Critical issues investigated include how the writers represent their sufferings, experiences, and emotions during incarceration; their strategies of survival; and how political prison literature can reveal hidden violations of human rights, while resisting official discourse and serving other functions in society. Examining the commonalities and differences in global experiences of imprisonment, the eight chapters engage with the aesthetics of self-making and resistance, individual and collective memory, denial and conversion, catharsis and redemption, and the experiencing and witnessing of trauma. Topics also include the politics of remembering and the politics of representation, such as the problematic relationship between narrative, language, and representations of torture. Similarly under discussion are prison aesthetics of happiness, the role of spectacle in the criminal justice system, and the intersection of prison, gender, and silences. At a juncture when more and more people all over the world actively defy repressive regimes and demand political reform, this book makes a timely contribution to the advocacy and discourse of universal human rights.

Prison Writings

Author : Leonard Peltier
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250119286
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Prison Writings written by Leonard Peltier and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September of 2022, twenty-five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents, the DNC unanimously passed a resolution urging President Joe Biden to release him. Peltier has affirmed his innocence ever since his sentencing in 1977--his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen's bestselling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse--and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. Prison Writings is a wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain leads one to a transcendent reality, Peltier explores his suffering and the insights it has borne him. He also locates his experience within the history of the American Indian peoples and their struggles to overcome the federal government's injustices. Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.