Ammirazione o rivalità? Silvio Pellico nei “Mémoires d’outre-tombe” by Marguerite Bordry

“…In certain chapters of his Mémoires d’outre-tombe, François-René de Chateaubriand extensively refers to Le mie prigioni by Silvio Pellico, where the author recounts his fate as a political prisoner under the Habsburg Empire. While undoubtedly testifying the Chateaubriand admiration for Pellico, these references also reveal an attempt to identify himself with the Italian writer and even to appropriate one of his characters.…”
Get full text

Les emprisonnements des maoïstes et la détention politique en France (1970-1971) by Jean-Claude Vimont

“…In 1970 and 1971, French far-left activists who had recently be sentenced to prison initiated two hunger strikes so as to be granted the beneficial status of political prisoner. Their struggle was supported by an impressive campaign. …”
Get full text

<b>The body and the voice of confinement: witness and experience in prison literature</b> - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i3.17732 by Aulus Mandagará Martins

“…Their most striking feature is the presence of an enunciating subject called ‘convict’ in contrast to the ‘political prisoner’, the central figure of prison literature stemming from dictatorial contexts.…”
Get full text

Ethics and Dialogue in Autobiography: The Cases of Vitomil Zupan and Lojze Kovačič by Andreas Leben

“…Vitomil Zupan (1914–1987), a former partisan and political prisoner, and Lojze Kovačič (1928–2004) who was exiled as a German speaking child with his family from Switzerland to Yugoslavia, rank among the most outstanding autobiographers in modern Slovene literature. …”
Get full text

Unmasking Currents: Thinking Power and War with Foucault and the Black Panthers by Jason Demers

“…It considers precise points of intersection in late 1968 and 1971, when Foucault was reading BPP texts, and when the Groupe d’information sur les prisons (GIP) produced a booklet on the assassination of renowned political prisoner and BPP member George Jackson. Rather than pursuing claims about causal-chronological influence, the article teases out undercurrents—Nietzsche, Mao, Clausewitz, and revolutionary activist projects—that act as sites of confluence with respect to power and war. …”
Get full text

An Appeal to Polish Authorities by Lech Wałęsa

“…If the court agrees, a well-known government critic and civic activist will be put behind bars for at least 3 months, making him a political prisoner in an EU Member State.</p> …”
Get full text

Children and youth in forensic-medical views of Edmund Chróścielewski (1914–1998). Recollections on the centenary of his birthday by Zygmunt Przybylski, Marian Krawczyński

“…Edmund Chróścielewski (1914–1998), professor, head of the Chair and Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical School in Poznań (1952–1985), political prisoner in concentration camp of Auschwitz, a soldier of the Home Army, participant of Warsaw Uprising, author of approximately 200 publications, i.a. within scopes of forensic medicine, social problems, war and occupation, including martyrology of Polish children, participant in identification of bodies in Katyń graves, multi-year guardian of the University Sports Club (AZS).…”
Get full text

Two forms of autobiographic writing in the works of Vittorio. Foa by Sophie NEZRI DUFOUR

“…This article is structured around two types of autobiographic writings by Vittorio Foa, first an anti-fascist resistant, then a political prisoner from1935 to 1943, he became after WW II a union-leader, a politician and then a historian. …”
Get full text

Presidential Elections 2014 - Klaus Iohannis and the Condemnation of Communist Past by Dumitru-Cătălin Rogojanu

“…A symbolic gesture of disapproval of the communist crimes, which led to controversy in the public opinion, was also the decoration of the former political prisoner Octav Bjoza with the National Order „Star of Romania“ with the rank of Knight; but this event underlined Iohannis’s great respect towards those who suffered in the communist prisons of Romania. …”
Get full text

Between Loneliness and Survival. An Everyday Life Fragment in the Collectivized Village by Gheorghe Șișeștean

“…The reconstruction is based on the memories, written almost daily, of a villager, Paşca Alexa, who was a former political prisoner. Beyond the inevitable subjectivity of such notes, they point to the daily fight for survival of the villagers, the strategies used to meet the challenges of the communist regime, and also they capture the acuity end of the peasantry, against the background of major social processes of the communist period. …”
Get full text

Christina Bruce and Her Defence of Kildrummy Castle by Morvern French

“…As a member of the aristocratic class, her role as military leader sat alongside her roles as political prisoner, landholder and granter of land, trade negotiator, and royal host. …”
Get full text

NEGOSIASI IDEOLOGI DALAM NOVEL KUBAH KARYA AHMAD TOHARI: ANALISIS HEGEMONI GRAMSCI by , MIRA TRI RAHAYU, , Dr. Supriyadi, M.Hum.

“…The criticisms were to critic the labeling as political prisoner, critic to hegemony in military, society, government regulations, religion aspect, and family. …”

Ideology and Subversion: A Comparative Study of Mrinal Sen’s Padatik and Raghav Bandopadhyay’s Communis by Pratyusha Pramanik

“…His years as a political activist and a political prisoner were penned down as Communis (1975). …”
Get full text

Media and freedom: Basic issues by Vuksanović Divna

“…After all, how can modern media be said to be working in the public interest (even for freedom), and Julian Assange, a symbol of the presentation of relevant facts in the global media space, has beenbimprisoned for a decade as a political prisoner or criminal, similar to many others, less known, like him?…”
Get full text

Pierre de Belloy (c. 1550-1611): politics, polemic, and political thought during the French wars of religion by Innes, M

“…<p>Lawyer and royalist, political prisoner and polemicist, Pierre de Belloy (c. 1550-1611) had the misfortune to live through interesting times. …”

L’anticipation de la vieillesse, le rôle du genre et le discours politique en France au dix-neuvième siècle by Stacey Renee Davis

“…To receive a pension, each former political prisoner (proscrit), their widows or children, wrote letters describing their punishment and the wider multi-generational impact of that oppression.Objectives: This article uncovers understandings shared by Republican administrators and a particular group of their staunch working-class supporters - artisans, rural laborers, and small-town shopkeepers - of the definitions of old age, expectations for life trajectories, and how gender affected both expectations and experiences.Methodology: Historical, qualitative analysis of archival documents at the French National Archives and departments of the Ain, Allier, Drôme, Hérault, Rhône, Saône-et-Loire, Vaucluse and Yonne, France.Results: Analysis demonstrates pension applicants drew upon common understandings of gender and age-based roles to strengthen their claims to pensions both as erstwhile heroes of the newly democratic regime and as members of an indigent, elderly poor worthy of government aid.Conclusions: Former proscrits, their families and Republican administrators shared assumptions about the definition of the onset of old age as linked to gender; about expectations that elderly men would work indefinitely in old age until physically unable to do so but that the specter of elderly working women was shameful and a blot on Republican values; and about an understanding that pensions allowed a dignified old-age for both male and female applicants by undoing dangerous shifts in gender roles perceived as triggered by the political oppression decades earlier.Contribution: The article contributes to scholarship on changing European understandings of the gendered dimensions of old age in the late 19th century, just before decades of social welfare legislation.…”
Get full text

Expectations of Aging as Gendered Political Discourse in 19th-century France by Stacey Renee Davis

“…To receive a pension, each former political prisoner (proscrit), their widows or children, wrote letters describing their punishment and the wider multi-generational impact of that oppression.Objectives: This article uncovers understandings shared by Republican administrators and a particular group of their staunch working-class supporters - artisans, rural laborers, and small-town shopkeepers - of the definitions of old age, expectations for life trajectories, and how gender affected both expectations and experiences.Methodology: Historical, qualitative analysis of archival documents at the French National Archives and departments of the Ain, Allier, Drôme, Hérault, Rhône, Saône-et-Loire, Vaucluse and Yonne, France.Results: Analysis demonstrates pension applicants drew upon common understandings of gender and age-based roles to strengthen their claims to pensions both as erstwhile heroes of the newly democratic regime and as members of an indigent, elderly poor worthy of government aid.Conclusions: Former proscrits, their families and Republican administrators shared assumptions about the definition of the onset of old age as linked to gender; about expectations that elderly men would work indefinitely in old age until physically unable to do so but that the specter of elderly working women was shameful and a blot on Republican values; and about an understanding that pensions allowed a dignified old-age for both male and female applicants by undoing dangerous shifts in gender roles perceived as triggered by the political oppression decades earlier.Contribution: The article contributes to scholarship on changing European understandings of the gendered dimensions of old age in the late 19th century, just before decades of social welfare legislation.…”
Get full text

Dynamics Of Social Life-Economy Of Ex-Tapol In South Blitar 1968-2000 by Binti Masruroh, Kayan Swastika, Sumarjono Sumarjono, Mohamad Na’im, Akhmad Ryan Pratama, Robit Nurul Jamil

“…Keywords: Socio economic life, former political prisoner, Blitar…”
Get full text

Mandela’s Favourite African Folktales by Carmen Concilio

“…The fact that a political leader, ex freedom fighter and political prisoner dedicated his time to the collection and editing of stories from all over the African continent to be addressed to new readers as simple entertainment or as educational tools clearly testifies to the great humanity, culture, and open mindedness of one of the most important men of our times. …”
Get full text

THE POWER OF MYKHAILO DUBOVYI’S WISDOM: PER ASPERA AD ASTRA (CELEBRATING 110 YEARS FROM HIS BIRTH) by Anna Buchkovska, Yruii Svystun

“…Life journey and creative works of Mykhailo Dubovyi (November 22, 1908 – April 13, 1995), one of the restorers of the activities of the medical panel of Shevchenko Scientific Society in the post-Soviet period in Ukraine, the member of the Ukrainian Medical Society in Lviv (1939), highly professional physician-scientist, political prisoner of Bolshevist concentration camps, MD, professor of Lviv Danylo Halytsky Medical University, who was closely related to the creation and development of Lviv School of Dermatovenerology Mykhailo Dubovyi is an author of over 80 scientific works. …”
Get full text