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radical Shakespeare
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Robben Island
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South Africa
South Africa apartheid
South Africa history
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Product details
- ISBN 9781608462728
- Weight: 455g
- Dimensions: 241 x 267mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 2014
- Publisher: Haymarket Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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'Somehow, Shakespeare always seems to have something to say to us.' -Nelson Mandela. The prison authorities on the apartheid South African Robben Island were obsessed with censoring the news prisoners could receive of the outside world. Through the memories and biographical accounts written by former political inmates like Nelson Mandela, the book evocatively brings to life the power of the the written word, as well as the voices of these brilliant and courageous prisoners.
Ashwin Desai is a professor of sociology at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and is a newspaper columnist. He is the author of Arise Ye Coolies and South Africa: Still Revolting and We Are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
