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Captive!
Roman Sanchez, still suffering from the death of his father, must use all his skills and knowledge to save himself and the lives of three classmates when they are kidnapped from school and held for ransom.
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Art Imitating Life Imitating Death. An exploration of “Guests of the Nation” by Frank O’Connor
In 2003, as part of the centenary celebrations for Frank O’Connor’s birth, I was commissioned by the Irish National Broadcaster (RTÉ) to adapt his short story “Guests of the Nation” for radio. My research led me to a number of real-life incidents that echoed O’Connor’s emotionally charged exploration of the tragic consequences when friendships are formed between sworn enemies in a time of war. In the twilight zone where life imitates art, I was invited by descendants of the IRA Unit who had kidnapped and executed Major Compton Smith during the Irish War of Independence, to visit the isolated farmhouse in which he had been held hostage. I welcome you to join me on my journey into a world where history and story go hand in hand, and fact and fiction dovetail together seamlessly without contradiction or contrivance.
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\Playing father son and holocaust\: The Imagination of Totalitarian Oppression in the Works of John Edgar Wideman
Images of totalitarian domination and associated political techniques are central to John Edgar Wideman’s fiction and its understanding of history and African American suffering. This article illuminates the bases and consequences of Wideman’s artistic drive to gather together many of the worst atrocities of the past several centuries, from the Middle Passage to the Holocaust and to dramatize through them the conditions of the contemporary US and other locales. From the 1970s to the 2000s, in The Lynchers (1973), “Valaida” (1989), “Hostages” (1989), Philadelphia Fire (1990), “Who Invented the Jump Shot” (2005), and other works, Wideman creates images of concentration camps, Nazi genocide, and tentative alliances between Jews and African Americans. Through such daring motifs Wideman constructs a transhistorical and transnational community of sufferers. Wideman also aggressively identifies his artistic imagination itself with the purgative power of spectacular violence, instilling in readers’ a nearly constant sense that Wideman’s power of literary redress grows in tandem with the pervading destructiveness it counters.
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The tears of dark water : a novel
November, 2011: Somali pirates hijack a sailboat in the Indian Ocean and take American Daniel Parker and his teenaged son, Quentin, as hostages. The pirates are captured and extradited to stand trial in the United States, and a young man named Ismail is identified by his cohorts as the leader. Paul begins to suspect there is more to his story than zealotry and greed, but Ismail says little, fearing the truth will endanger the only person he has left in the world: his sister, Yasmin.
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Inhuman resources
Alain Delambre is a 57-year-old former HR executive, drained by four years of hopeless unemployment. All he is offered are small, demoralizing jobs. He has reached his very lowest ebb, and can see no way out. So when a major company finally invites him to an interview, Alain Delambre is ready to do anything, borrow money, shame his wife and his daughters and even participate in the ultimate recruitment test: a role-playing game that involves hostage-taking. Alain Delambre commits body and soul in this struggle to regain his dignity. But if he suddenly realised that the dice had been loaded against him from the start, his fury would be limitless. And what began as a role-play game could quickly become a bloodbath.
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LA FIGURA DE LA COLABORADORA EN LA NARRATIVA CHILENA: EL SÍNDROME DE ESTOCOLMO Y LA ZONA GRIS EN LA VIDA DOBLE DE ARTURO FONTAINE Y CARNE DE PERRA DE FÁTIMA SIME
Although the subject is still taboo, the figure of the hostage who becomes a collaborator to please her captors, with whom she also establishes amorous or erotic relationships, has been transferred to Chilean fiction. The novels La vida doble (2010) by Arturo Fontaine and Carne de perra (2009) by Fátima Sime focus on the collaborative experiences of their protagonists with the Pinochet dictatorship. These texts refer to what has been called \"the Stockholm syndrome\" and to what Primo Levi, the Italian survivor of Auschwitz, calls the \"gray zone,\" describing his experience in the Nazi extermination camp. One of the dangers that victims of extreme oppression face is becoming accomplices in the atrocities perpetrated against others. Such is the case with the protagonists of La vida doble and Carne de perra; both are subjected to physical and psychological torture that culminate in an identification with the oppressor that manifests as Stockholm syndrome. These women end up becoming collaborators or \"gray agents\" with a high physical, psychological and ethical cost.
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