“SURVIVING” AND “ESCAPE” BY VOCABLE IN FEMININE INCARCERATION MEMORIES Cover Image

„SUPRAVIEŢUIREA” ŞI „EVADAREA” PRIN LOGOS ÎN DETENŢIA FEMININĂ REFLECTATĂ ÎN MEMORIALISTICĂ
“SURVIVING” AND “ESCAPE” BY VOCABLE IN FEMININE INCARCERATION MEMORIES

Author(s): Graţian Coromoş
Subject(s): History
Published by: Argonaut

Summary/Abstract: In order to resist within the communist Inferno, the female prisoners were forced to elaborate strategies of psychological resistance. The survival and escape from detention Inferno take into account the following meanings: resistance to the consequences of re-education and depersonalization, a high level of elation, intransigency, and in a general way the idea, even dreamlike, of a certain liberty. Two major types of escape, depending on backgrounds, could be possible: the soundless escape (look on Lena Constante’ memories) and the social escape, full of acts. This study deals with “language escape”, understanding the resistance against re-education with stories, chats and faith inside the women prison of communist Romania. Of the most used forms of escape experimented by women, narration and faith were the most genuine and successful. The stories unburden in an evident way the stress of detention. They were based on memories and oral teaching. In prisons the intellectuals were respected and admired by the others. All along the detention famous or less known novels or even questionable literary products were told, as well as fairy tales, poems, proverbs, some of them fabricated right away. The most important virtue of the stories and talks was a temporary forgot of repression and a building of another universe: they (the oppressors) having the ideologically paltry world, us (the imprisoned) with an entire fictional, above time universe, antidote to lies, beating and abuse.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: VII
  • Page Range: 224-243
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Romanian