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Salt Journals: Tunisian Women on Political Imprisonment

Salt Journals: Tunisian Women on Political Imprisonment

Zangana, Haifa
Yakinthou, Christalla
Ladisch, Virginie

Paperback

Series: Middle East Literature in Translation

Biographies GeneralFiction AnthologiesGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0815638515
ISBN13: 9780815638513
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Dec 20 2024
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.86
Language: English

Salt Journals is a compelling collection of essays by Tunisian women, sharing their personal experiences with dictatorship and oppression. While rooted in the history and culture of Tunisia, these narratives reflect universal feelings of isolation, pain, and the indomitable quest for freedom.

Drawn from a variety of different professions, including a lawyer, an engineer, a nurse, a student, and a city council member, among others, these women are contesting the culture of silence surrounding women's prison narratives. Employing words as their weapons of nonviolent resistance, the authors recount the harsh realities of a militarized state and its oppressive prison system. Their creative defiance against state repression emerges not just as a means of survival, but as a profound act of dissidence, reclaiming control from the brutality imposed upon their lives. A testament to the power of self-representation, these essays open a vital space for dialogue on empathy, resilience, and the importance of speaking out in the face of tyranny.

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