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And crocodiles are hungry at night : a memoir / by Jack Mapanje.
Van Pelt Library PR9385.9.M36 Z46 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mapanje, Jack.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mapanje, Jack--Imprisonment.
- Mapanje, Jack.
- Political prisoners--Malawi--Biography.
- Political prisoners.
- Imprisonment.
- Malawi.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 435 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK : Ayebia Clarke Pub. ; Boulder, CO : Distributed ... by Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2011.
- Summary:
- Jack Mapanje is a poet and one-time professor of English at the U. of Malawi, who was attracting international attention through his poems and his writings in linguistics until his arrest and imprisonment without charge under President for Life Hastings Banda. This is his memoir of his four year imprisonment, in which he reflects on the reasons for his arrest, the conditions he and other detainees suffered in the prison, and the nature of the struggle to remain whole while subjected to the harsh conditions of detention. Distributed in the US by Lynne Rienner Publishers. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- "A chronicle of a poet's imprisonment under life president Banda of Malawi." -- T.p.
- ISBN:
- 0956240178
- 9780956240170
- OCLC:
- 752785667
- Publisher Number:
- 99949627264
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