The six shortlisted writers come from six different countries – Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Tunisia, and Morocco – but their books echo similar themes of repression, religion, and exile.
The history of art in Colombia had been written without her in it". Other artists include Gloria Camiruaga, a Chilean who made video that touched on militarism; the Argentinean Margarita Paksa, whose conceptual objects explored themes of repression and fear; and Brazilian Carmela Gross, whose abstract sculptures spoke to issues of absence and loss.
The theme of repression has often been underplayed in traditional accounts.
And though the theme of repression is handled a little too obviously (each woman stores her most precious belongings in a secret box ), Ms. Staka — who grew up in Switzerland but whose family is from Bosnia and Croatia — understands the fear and allure of borders.
This month BAMcinématek is spotlighting Terence Davies, whose semiautobiographical "Terence Davies Trilogy" (1983) and "Distant Voices, Still Lives" (1988) resonate with their themes of sexual repression and schoolyard bullying.
Over and over, in works with evocative titles like "Forgive Me for Your Having Betrayed Me" or "Cute, but a Tramp," Mr. Rodrigues would find himself returning to the themes of sexual repression, hypocrisy, rage and deception, along with obsessive jealousy, shame, self-loathing, guilt and physical decay.
However you feel about that style — and a lot of people like it, obviously — it's an uneasy fit for "Happy Town," pulling your attention away from the central story of a mysterious kidnapper dubbed the Magic Man and the themes of rural repression and conformity.
STEVEN L. DENLINGER is a memoirist, journalist and screenwriter whose stories center around themes of community, repression and redemption.
"When I responded, 'Why do you ask?' recalled Stein, "He said, 'Because it's so Japanese.'" In much the same way that "The Diary of Anne Frank" is not just a Jewish story, neither is "Fiddler on the Roof". "Fiddler's" strong themes of tradition, repression, prejudice and diaspora continue to evoke common ground for audiences — wherever they are.
Her gestures tend to inspire dread, and the narrative design of a murderous crook adopting the guise of a strict schoolmarm gives both pulpy vigor and sensitive shading to the series's themes of control and repression.
I was perhaps 12 the first time I saw A Room With a View, Merchant Ivory's sumptuous adaptation of EM Forster's novel, which explored themes of passion and repression in the Edwardian era, set against the backdrops of Italy and England.
