"But They Can't Manage to Silence Us:" Mahjoub Sharif’s Prison Poem “A Homesick Sparrow” (1990) as Resistance to Political Confinement

This article discusses the poem "A Homesick Sparrow" by the Sudanese poet Mahjoub Sharif (1948-2014) in the frame of recent cultural policies in Sudan. The poem was written in 1990, one year after the military coup that brought the present regime to power, while the poet was imprisoned tog...

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Published in:	Middle East - Topics & Arguments
Main Author:	Ille, Enrico
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Philipps-Universität Marburg 2015
Subjects:	Sudanese Poetry Political Islam Public Spaces Political Prisoners Cultural Policy
Online Access:	Online Access
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