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Just as her new life seems under control, Shrimp reappears, making her question her destiny, her sense of selfhood, and what sorts of sacrifices loving another person calls for. These practices demonstrate that literacy, for these workers, tended to cultivate a form of selfhood that placed themselves in relation to others--most commonly family members, friends, and fellow workers--while at the same time developing space for reflection and assertions of authority. It's quite possible to maintain one's human dignity and selfhood while imprisoned; not so with torture, which, as Sullivan put in The New Republic, "takes what is animal in us and deploys it against what makes us human. |
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