For Mo, interrogation is a spatial as much as legal discipline

Evidence

Couched in the spatial metaphor of suffocation and drowning, Mo’s feelings testify to a sense of spatial as well as legal disadvantage as he languishes in the interrogation room with the natural light blocked out “to create the ambience of a cell.” Mo reflects: “Someone among them understood the manipulation of space.” — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 272

Categorization

Category: Craft and Method

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