MEMBER BLOG TAG: jose delisay
| Saturday, May 2, 2009 5:29PM | | | | Are You a Political Prisoner? | Tags: Jose Delisay, Khet Mar, Susan Rosenberg, Hwang Sok-yong
| | | | I suppose every writer has pondered the consequences of writing, Publication or prison. Fortune or torture. Respected or reviled.
Jose Delisay wrote political pamphlets opposing martial law in the Philippines, was sent to prison for seven months, and was released without being charged with anything. He experienced some physical pain and a lot of psychological stress. Twenty years later he wrote a novel about it. “To gain freedom you must be prepared to lose it,” he said. “Abstract political thinking becomes personal in prison. You negotiate with yourself, rethink your beliefs. Traffic is going well so maybe it isn’t so bad.” To avoid censorship Delisay wrote plays set in the 17th century when there was a different government or in the early 1900s during the US... | | | | | |
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