Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration : Discovering the Ethical Prison.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781611479836
- 809.8920692
- HV7419.L377 2017
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Toward a Prison Poetics -- 2 Poetry, Pain, and Reconstructive Resistance -- 3 Three Studies in Testamentary Reconstruction -- 4 B(e)aring Bare Life: Ethnic American Prison Writing -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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