The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist - Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach's prison narrative The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist provides an interesting response to life in prison. Breytenbach, one of South Africa's best-known Afrikaner poets,was sentenced to nine years in prison under the Terrorism Act after being arrested in 1975 while trying to recruit members to the Okhela resistance group.The Confessions covers his imprisonment and release in 1983. In an afterword to the text, he states that the work "took shape from the obsessive urge I experienced during the first weeks and months of my release to talk, talk, talk, to tell my story and all the other stories". The book shows, in part, how someone who is passively complicit in the power structure represented by the prison can use that complicity to undermine the oppressive force. - Times Higher Education [contact-form][contact-field label='Name' type='name'required='1'/][contact-field label='Email' type='email' required='1'/][contact-field label='Inquire about this book' type='textarea'required='1'/][/contact-form]