Tesis doctoral de Josep Sala Esquena
The purpose of this thesis is to study ten african authors and to compare their prison narratives from a sociological rather than from a literary viewpoint. The authors analyzed are representative writers of the african narrative in english of the second half of the twentieth century: breyten breytenbach, ngugi wa thiongo, wole soyinka, molefe pheto, moses dlamini, winnie mandela, ruth first, herman c. Bosman, hugh lewin and kenneth kaunda. this dissertation is divided into seven characteristic chapters: 1. Prison conditions; 2. Deprivations; 3. Warders; 4. Time; 5. prisoners; 6. Material and psychological problems of the writer in prison and 7. Prison poetry. the political situation of the african countries makes the writers view their individual imprisonments as collective problems and they tend to regard prison as a microcosm of their societies.
Datos académicos de la tesis doctoral «African prison literature«
- Título de la tesis: African prison literature
- Autor: Josep Sala Esquena
- Universidad: Autónoma de barcelona
- Fecha de lectura de la tesis: 01/01/1992
Dirección y tribunal
- Director de la tesis
- Doireann Macdermott Goodridge
- Tribunal
- Presidente del tribunal: Aranzazu Usandizaga
- Brian Worsfold (vocal)
- Jordi Lamarca (vocal)
- Dolors Collellmir (vocal)