{"id":2179,"date":"2025-08-04T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:16:55","slug":"articulating-confinement-the-transformation-of-silence-into-poetic-testimony-in-gathering-seaweed-african-prison-writing-by-jack-mapanje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/?p=2179","title":{"rendered":"ARTICULATING CONFINEMENT: THE TRANSFORMATION OF SILENCE INTO POETIC TESTIMONY IN GATHERING SEAWEED: AFRICAN PRISON WRITING BY JACK MAPANJE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">This essay discusses how the author transforms his experience of political incarceration into an act of written speech, thereby resisting the silence imposed by a power establishment. The collection first exposes the strategy of dehumanization and erasure orchestrated by the authoritarian regime, before showing how writing becomes a space for inner survival. By composing his texts despite imprisonment, Mapanje secures his identity and rejects erasure. His voice goes beyond personal testimony to carry the collective memory of African prisons, creating a space for truth, solidarity, and transmission. Through this act of writing, the author turns literature into a tool of resistance, dignity, and reconstruction in the face of oppression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: Political incarceration, silence, writing as resistance, collectivememory, Oppression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Le pr\u00e9sent article traite de comment l\u2019auteur transforme son exp\u00e9rience d\u2019incarc\u00e9ration politique en un acte de parole \u00e9crite, r\u00e9sistant ainsi au silence impos\u00e9 par un pouvoir \u00e9tabli. Le recueil expose d\u2019abord la strat\u00e9gie de d\u00e9shumanisation et d\u2019effacement orchestr\u00e9e par le r\u00e9gime autoritaire, avant de montrer comment l\u2019\u00e9criture devient un espace de survie int\u00e9rieure. En composant ses textes malgr\u00e9 l\u2019enfermement, Mapanje pr\u00e9serve son identit\u00e9 et refuse l\u2019effacement. Sa parole d\u00e9passe le t\u00e9moignage personnel pour porter la m\u00e9moire collective des prisons africaines, cr\u00e9ant un lieu de v\u00e9rit\u00e9, de solidarit\u00e9 et de transmission. \u00c0 travers ce travail d\u2019\u00e9criture, l\u2019auteur fait de la litt\u00e9rature un outil de r\u00e9sistance, de dignit\u00e9 et de reconstruction face \u00e0 l\u2019oppression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Mots-cl\u00e9s<\/strong>: Incarc\u00e9ration politique, silence, \u00e9criture comme r\u00e9sistance, M\u00e9moire collective, oppression.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract This essay discusses how the author transforms his experience of political incarceration into an act of written speech, thereby resisting the silence imposed by a power establishment. The collection first exposes the strategy of dehumanization and erasure orchestrated by the authoritarian regime, before showing how writing becomes a space for inner survival. 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