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Punishment Without Crime: Belarusian Prison Poetry.

Authors :
MCMILLIN, ARNOLD
Source :
Journal of Belarusian Studies; 2013, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p69-82, 14p
Publication Year :
2013

Abstract

The article offers poetry criticism on poems by Belarusian prisoners in twentieth to twenty first centuries. It provides interpretation of poems and offered different feelings from contumacy to despair and will to survive by the poets. Poems include are "Noc u astrozie" (Night in Jail) by Jakub Kolas in 1908, "Pieni niavoli" (Song of Captivity) by Ales Harun in 1918, and "Z kryvi bielaruskoj" by Siarhiej Novik-Piajun in 1945.

Subjects

Subjects :
BELARUSIAN poetry

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00754161
Volume :
7
Issue :
1
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Journal of Belarusian Studies
Publication Type :
Review
Accession number :
96528264
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1163/20526512-00701004