Political Escapes from Prisons and Camps in the Twentieth Century - Antisystemic Mentalities

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Abstract:This study embarks on a definition of escape from prisons and camps in the twentieth century, referring strictly to prisoners of conscience (political prisoners, captive in any kind of totalitarian system) and prisoners of war, but not to common law offenders. In this regard, the study discusses the mystique of escape and its meanings: the legitimation of life, the therapy and rehabilitation of identity, pedagogy and morality, opposition to Power, punishment and vengeance.

Tattooed Souls: The Vocabulary of Sexuality and Trauma in Women’s Memoirs on Romanian Communist Prison Experience

“…Quoting Daniel P. Mannix, Ruxandra Cesereanu discusses the sexualisation of torture (algolagnia), exercised directly or indirectly, as having ancient roots in the Colosseum massacres, either involving the gladiators or the Christian martyrdom 19 . Cesereanu observes that in the witch trials organised by the Inquisition the victims were also subject to sexual violence and creates a parallel to the 20 th century political torture exercised on the female body 20 and characterised by or including sexual violence.…”