Prose and Cons: Essays on Prison Literature in the United StatesD. Quentin Miller McFarland, 4 okt. 2005 - 288 sidor As the United States' prison population has exploded over the past 30 years, a rich, provocative and ever-increasing body of literature has emerged, written either by prisoners or by those who have come in close contact with them. Unlike earlier prison writings, contemporary literature moves in directions that are neither uniformly ideological nor uniformly political. It has become increasingly personal, and the obsessive subject is the way identity is shaped, compromised, altered, or obliterated by incarceration. The 14 essays in this work examine the last 30 years of prison literature from a wide variety of perspectives. The first four essays examine race and ethnicity, the social categories most evident in U.S. prisons. The three essays in the next section explore gender, a prominent subject of prison literature highlighted by the absolute separation of male and female inmates. Section three provides three essays focused on the part ideology plays in prison writings. The four essays in section four consider how aesthetics and language are used, seeking to define the qualities of the literature and to determine some of the reasons it exists. |
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White Readers of | 15 |
SelfImprisonment | 33 |
Critical Witnessing in Latinao and African American | 62 |
Dealing with Loss | 111 |
The Evolving View of | 131 |
George Jackson | 147 |
The Last Bastion of Morality? | 174 |
Writing into the PrisonIndustrial Complex | 203 |
Prison Slang and the Poetics of Imprisonment | 233 |
Why Prisoners Write | 246 |
About the Contributors | 273 |
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