God’s Shadow: Prison Poems is Reza Baraheni’s powerful narrative, 99 pages long, of the excruciating physical and mental torture he suffered in 1973 at the hands of SAVAK, the Iranian secret police. The account is told through a vivid prose… Read More ›
literature of resistance
Literary Responses to the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement
The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s has been recognized globally as the most transformative social movement of twentieth-century America. Likewise, the Black Power movement that grew out of it in the 1960s is also viewed… Read More ›