Millett analyzes the individual\'s monumental fear of the state through the rich Literature of its expression--a mixture of literary text (Solzhenitsyn\'s The Gulag Archipelago , Mathabane\'s Kaffir Boy , Bharadwaj\'s film Closet Land ), the reports of witnesses, legal theory, and historical account.
The literary version of their experience is the most arresting; it prevails and persuades with the greatest effect: the reality of the victim, the social and psychologic.
Millett analyzes the individual\'s monumental fear of the state through the rich Literature of its expression--a mixture of literary text (Solzhenitsyn\'s The Gulag Archipelago , Mathabane\'s Kaffir Boy , Bharadwaj\'s film Closet Land ), the reports of witnesses, legal theory, and historical account