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Book SynopsisLouise Purbrick is Tutor in Design History, Royal College of Arts, UK.
Trade ReviewIn this brilliant study of a place known to most only as an icon, Purbrick asks who and what made the H Blocks? As she shows, these processes are ongoing, long after the prison’s closure. Deeply sensitive to the challenge of writing about the trauma of others, she fills the site with bodies and things, politics and feelings. * David Crowley, Head of the School of Visual Culture, National College of Art and Design, Ireland *
Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Building the Blocks 2. Living in the Cells 3. The Global Witness and the Hunger Strike 4. Women Visitors: Waiting to Understand Prison Architecture 5. Erasure: The Last Murals and Final Performance of Long Kesh/Maze 6. On eBay: Who Owns the Keys of the H Blocks? Conclusion Bibliography Index