TY - BOOK AU - Alexander,Patrick Elliot TI - From Slave Ship to Supermax: Mass Incarceration, Prisoner Abuse, and the New Neo-Slave Novel SN - 9781439914168 AV - PS153 U1 - 813/.5409896073 PY - 2017/// CY - Philadelphia PB - Temple University Press KW - Imprisonment in literature KW - African American prisoners in literature KW - American fiction-20th century-History and criticism KW - American fiction-African American authors-History and criticism KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Antipanoptic Expressivity and the New Neo-Slave Novel -- 1. Talking in George Jackson's Shadow: Neo-Slavery, Police Intimidation, and Imprisoned Intellectualism in Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk -- 2. Middle Passage Reinstated: Whispers from the Women's Prison in Morrison's Beloved -- 3. "Didn't I say this was worse than prison?" The Slave Ship-Supermax Relation in Johnson's Middle Passage -- 4. "tell them im a man": Slavery's Vestiges and Imprisoned Radical Intellectualism in Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying -- Epilogue: The Prison Classroom and the Neo-Abolitionist Novel -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5118011 ER -