Format:
xxxi, 163 Seiten
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9781611479829
Series Statement:
The Fairleigh dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities
Content:
This book places prison witness at the center of discussions of the human experience of law and order, and of the nature of the rights-bearing person. Readings of canonical and contemporary writers facing incarceration yield abiding literary tropes that chart the path from institutional abjection toward the minimal threshold of personhood
Note:
Toward a prison poetics -- Poetry, pain, and reconstructive resistance -- Three studies in testamentary reconstruction -- B(e)aring bare life : ethnic American prison writing
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-61147-983-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
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