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Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration : Discovering the Ethical Prison.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (197 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611479836
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Witness in the Era of Mass IncarcerationDDC classification:
  • 809.8920692
LOC classification:
  • HV7419.L377 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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