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Reading revolution - Shakespeare on Robben Island (Paperback, New)
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Reading revolution - Shakespeare on Robben Island (Paperback, New)
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This title is about the clandestine role of William Shakespeare
literature on Robben Island among the political prisoners during
the Apartheid era. It's essentially about how the literature was
used in a disguised manner as religious material, to form part of
the political education among the prisoners. The prison authorities
on Robben Island displayed a remarkable obsession with censoring
the news that prisoners could receive of the outside world. Yet, as
the pages of this book reveal, political prisoners managed to
escape these constraints through literature, travelling to the
sites of contemporary revolutionary struggles and to the frontlines
of the French and Bolshevik revolutions. Tolstoy jostled with
Trotsky, while Shakespeare 'winged' his way over the walls of the
single and communal cells. As the prisoners brought their
experiences to bear on the text, the works of Shakespeare were
mined for their anti-colonial and anti-apartheid inspirations as
much as for the power and beauty of their words. The texts also
left their mark on the consciousness and memories of liberation
fighters, with many prisoners reciting lines from Shakespeare's
plays and sonnets some three decades after their release. Through
the memories and biographical accounts written by former political
inmates, the book evocatively brings to life the voices of
prisoners who furtively copied books at night before they were
snatched back by the warders. This book is about those books, about
how words can inspire the human spirit, light up the intellect and
free the reader to travel the world. But this is not a book simply
about the past.
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