Death Sentences
Literature and State Killing
As Albert Camus once remarked: 'Of capital punishment, people write only [...] in a low voice.' Journalists and state officials alike use a carefully policed language when making any reference to the death penalty: when human beings are to be executed by the state, some key actors talk about what will be done in terms of legalities and procedures. Does fiction provide a counterbalance for that discretion, or simply echo it? What other perspectives can it bring into the foreground, and can literary language express a response to a supposedly necessary horror, or a terrible injustice, which other voices or media cannot?Considering a range of ma…
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Weitere Autoren: Morisi, Ève (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78188-558-1
- EAN: 9781781885581
- Produktnummer: 38353594
- Verlag: Legenda
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 258 S.
- Masse: H24.4 cm x B17.0 cm x D1.4 cm 452 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Reihenbandnummer: 49
- Gewicht: 452
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