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South African prison writing

This research project returns to and reconsiders the many representations of prison experience by political prisoners under apartheid, comparing them to new memoirs published since 2000.

David Schalkwyk David Schalkwyk

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Genocide and Hope: Studies in the Architecture of Oppression and the Redemptive Possibilities of Nonviolence

I have conceptualized a work encompassing four distinct yet related books, each around 150 pages long, tentatively entitled the Genocide and Hope Quartet, and comprised of the following parts: Dandi; Auschwitz; Hiroshima; and Robben Island.

Vinay Lal Vinay Lal
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