Tyranny lessons : international prose, poetry, and performance / Alok Bhalla, Ming Di, guests editors ; Frank Stewart, series editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bhalla, Alok, editor.

Di, Ming, editor.

Stewart, Frank, editor.

Series:

Manoa: a Pacific Journal of International Writing series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dictatorship.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages).

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2020]

Summary:

The 21st century has seen a resurgence of authoritarian rule that often replicates past totalitarian systems, but is more refined and nuanced in its strategies of repression and exploitation. Entertainment, media, international travel, and prosperity create the appearance of flourishing individual freedoms while our lives and thoughts are increasingly monitored and manipulated. This disturbing trend raises the question of what exactly is meant by tyranny in its contemporary forms.In Tyranny Lessons, international writers from a dozen countries in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas address these challenges as only literary writing can: through the perspective of lived experiences, imagined futures, andpersonal struggles.Tyranny Lessons also features the photography of Danny Lyon, the first photographer of the Student Non-violentCoordinating Committee, whose work documented the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Editor’s Note

Two Stories

from Acting My Age

Epidemic

Chairman Mao Is Dead

I Investigate Lynchings

About the Photographer

About the Contributors

Permissions and Acknowledgements

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8248-8922-3

OCLC:

1183960823