![]() ![]() Harlow earned her bachelor’s degree in French and philosophy from Simmons College in Boston in 1970 and a master’s degree in Romance languages and literatures from the University of Chicago in 1972. Harlow’s writings on political prisoners, and her later work on biographies of literary figures who were also political activists in South Africa, Palestine and El Salvador, have guided many scholars toward the possibility of contesting the boundaries of the political and the aesthetic. Similarly, fiction should be read, she stated, to raise historical, sociological and political questions. ![]() She argued that scholars should pay critical attention to journalistic writings and subject them to close readings as they do literary texts. In that lecture Harlow framed her book as an experiment that brought together history, criticism and journalism. This book examined the struggle of female political prisoners in different parts of the world through memoirs, novels, poetry and documentaries. I first met Professor Barbara Harlow (1948-2017) in the autumn of 1992, while conducting field research in Egypt, when she gave her talk at the American University in Cairo on her new book, Barred: Women, Writing and Political Detention (Wesleyan University Press, 1992). ![]()
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