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In Peter Handke's play Kaspar, a young man is forced to learn to
speak: a process that is a form of physical torture to him. In Jane
Austen's Mansfield Park, the young heroine desires to keep as
silent as possible, since speech directed at her causes such pain.
We are not allowed to remain silent, even when the cost of speech
is torture and pain.
Why does interrogation silence its object and not make it speak? Silence vs speech is a central issue in classical and modern literary works. This book studies literary representations of the power relations in which we are forced to speak using a range of texts ranging from the modern crime novel, via classics, to avant-garde plays.
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