Prison Journals During the French Revolution
Author: Louise Henriette Charlotte Philippine de Noailles de Durfort Duras (duchesse de)
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 244
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Author: Louise Henriette Charlotte Philippine de Noailles de Durfort Duras (duchesse de)
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Shahla Talebi
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011-01-14
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0804775818
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Opening the enormous metal gate, the guard suddenly took away my blindfold and asked me, tauntingly, if I would recognize my parents. With my eyes hurting from the strange light and anger in my voice, I assured him that I would. Suddenly I was pushed through the gate and the door was slammed behind me. After more than eight years, here I was, finally, out of jail . . . ." In this haunting account, Shahla Talebi remembers her years as a political prisoner in Iran. Talebi, along with her husband, was imprisoned for nearly a decade and tortured, first under the Shah and later by the Islamic Republic. Writing about her own suffering and survival and sharing the stories of her fellow inmates, she details the painful reality of prison life and offers an intimate look at a critical period of social and political transformation in Iran. Somehow through it all—through resistance and resolute hope, passion and creativity—Talebi shows how one survives. Reflecting now on experiences past, she stays true to her memories, honoring the love of her husband and friends lost in these events, to relate how people can hold to moments of love, resilience, and friendship over the dark forces of torture, violence, and hatred. At once deeply personal yet clearly political, part memoir and part meditation, this work brings to heartbreaking clarity how deeply rooted torture and violence can be in our society. More than a passing judgment of guilt on a monolithic "Islamic State," Talebi's writing asks us to reconsider our own responses to both contemporary debates of interrogation techniques and government responsibility and, more simply, to basic acts of cruelty in daily life. She offers a lasting call to us all. "The art of living in prison becomes possible through imagining life in the very presence of death and observing death in the very existence of life. It is living life so vitally and so fully that you are willing, if necessary, to let that very life go, as one would shed chains on the legs. It is embracing, and flying on the wings of death as though it is the bird of freedom."
Author: Collective Antigone
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2025-01-07
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0520401379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking collection of writings by political prisoners in Egypt, offering a unique lens on the global rise of authoritarianism during the last decade. This book contains letters, poetry, and art produced by Egypt's incarcerated from the eruption of the January 25, 2011, uprising. Some are by journalists, lawyers, activists, and artists imprisoned for expressing their opposition to Egypt's authoritarian order; others are by ordinary citizens caught up in the zeal to silence any hint of challenge to state power, including bystanders whose only crime was to be near a police sweep. Together, the contributors raise profound questions about the nature of politics in both authoritarian regimes and their "democratic" allies, who continue to enable and support such violence. This collection offers few answers and even less consolation, but it does offer voices from behind the prison walls that remind readers of our collective obligation not to look away or remain silent. With a foreword by acclaimed Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji and an afterword with Kenyan literary giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Imprisoning a Revolution holds a mirror not just to Egypt but to the world today, urging us to stop the rampant abuse and denial of fundamental human rights around the globe.
Author: Danske Dandridge
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-15
Total Pages: 538
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "American Prisoners of the Revolution" by Danske Dandridge. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Michael Davis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2005-11-01
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1441175539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNewgate in Revolution provides a useful and thought-provoking anthology of radical literature - satirical, philosophical and political writings - issued by the radicals and religious dissenters imprisoned in Newgate during the turbulent and nervous period 1780-1848. Newgate was a dreaded prison during this period and its image and reputation coupled to make it the English equivalent of the French Bastille. For those who found themselves incarcerated in Newgate the experience was debilitating and repressive. However, in the case of the radical prisoners it is a curious irony that this repressive environment actually encouraged a fraternal spirit and fertilised a rich production of ideas and literature, which today offers a rare insight into this unique and fascinating culture. Newgate in Revolution reproduces a representative selection of the radical literature published from Newgate, including the first edited version of the prison diary of Thomas Lloyd.
Author: Oliver Baldwin
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 300
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Louise Duras
Publisher: Litres
Published: 2021-03-16
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 5040756011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Larry Lowenthal
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Far fewer people have heard of Wallabout Bay on the Brooklyn shore of the East River or know the terrible story of American sailors who were imprisoned there on wretched hulks like the Jersey. ... Hell on the East River uses the prisoners' own accounts to describe the agony of imprisonment, analyzes the number of deaths, examines the reasons for the tragedy, and describes the 100-year struggle to erect the present Prison Ship.
Author: Henry Reed Stiles
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Published: 2009-07
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781104779733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author: Olga B. Kurtz
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Published: 2008-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781605638874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNothing about the short life of Louis Charles was ordinary. As the son of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI, he was heir to the throne of France and lived in privilege and luxury, but this was the beginning of the French revolution. He and his family were imprisoned, and conditions continued to worsen. His personal ordeal began after his parents were executed. He was confined in a filthy cell, totally alone, ill and demoralized. He died when he was ten years old. Yet, because of the suspicions surrounding his death, 200 years later, scientists were conducting DNA tests on a preserved heart to determine whether or not it was the heart of Louis Charles, or one of his many impersonators. Prisoner Prince vividly describes the chaos of the period as well as unraveling the mystery of that unfortunate boy and his pretenders.