أدب السجون مقاومة إبداعية لقهر السلطة

Abstract

“O my first knock on the stone until you wake up all mankind…O my first knock on the wall until our night turns into day light…O hearts that are bleeding into the dimness…O hearts that are bleeding and singing…They imprisoned you intending to imprison the word… but the word-in spite of its self and myself-got out of the bars and the fences”. When ideologies and ideas contradict and the gap between sides of a discussion or a struggle widens, each side starts to push away and marginalize-or even eliminate the other side. When the sides of the struggle are: oppressive dictatorship state facing some intellectuals and writers, we have either to imagine what this confrontation could lead to, or read what these writers wrote, those who went through this confrontation with the oppressive power and ended up in prisons where torture turned some of them into disfigured signs on walls, but it also turned others-with whom we are concerned-into resisting rocks and rebellious spirits that refused humiliation or surrender and which succeeded in creating a new concept of creativity and resistance Prison literature is that produced in prison or dealing with prison as subject. The particularity of this type of literature lies in the particularity of the experiment which brought it forward, its features shaped by the domain, historical, psychological and cultural circumstances in which the writer went through and was influenced by. The importance of this type of literature does not emanate from the fame of its authors, but from its being certificates and historical documents of the oppressive period in which the Arab countries lived and still lives and which brought forward this type of literature