The politics of cruelty

Pt. 1. The Mechanism. 1. Solzhenitsyn and the Creation of the Gulag. 2. The Nazi Camp System. 3. Henri Alleg and Colonialism in Algeria. 4. The British in Ireland. 5. The Apartheid System in South Africa -- Pt. 2. The Imagination. 6. Photography: The Experience of Shock. 7. Closet Land: State and Sexual Authority. 8. The Extreme Experience of Solitude: Aurobindo, Ngugi, Nien Cheng -- Pt. 3. Recent Politics of Cruelty in Action. 9. The Little School: Argentina and Brazil. 10. The Death of a Guatemalan Village. El Salvador. 11. State Torture and Religion. The Torture of Children. 12. Conclusion.