Writers Under Siege
Subtitle: Voices of Freedom from Around the World (A Pen Anthology)
Publisher: NYU Press; New York University Press
Published: September 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780814767429
Subjects: Literary Collections; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Literature: Classics; Political Freedom & Security - General; Rhetoric; Literary Collections / General; Essays; Journalism; Collections; Literature; Translations into English
Description: "Collected here are fifty contributions by writers who have paid dearly for the privilege of writing. Some have been tortured; some have been killed.. .[t]he contributors come from more than twenty-five countries; many are well-known in the English-speaking world ... other contributors are less famous ... In prose and poetry, in fiction and non-fiction, the pieces, grouped into four sections ... reveal the personal consequences of war, conflict, terrorism, and authoritariansim."--Cover.