Prison life writing : conversion and the literary roots of the U.S. prison system
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- ISBN: 9781771125185
- ISBN: 1771125195
- ISBN: 9781771125192
- ISBN: 1771125187
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Physical Description:
1 online resource.
remote - Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2021]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Autobiography and the problem with resistance : the conversion narrative in prison discourse and US prison life writing -- Conversion and the story of the US prison -- The treatment era : African American prison life writing and the prison conversion narrative in George Jackson's Soledad Brother and James Carr's Bad -- From the treatment era to the monster factory : Carl Panzram's and Jack Henry Abbott's anticonversion narratives and the dawn of mass incarceration -- Life writing in the contemporary carceral state : Writing My Wrongs, A Place to Stand, and the making of a "better human being" -- "Love is contraband in Hell" : women's prisons, life writings, and discourses of sexuality in Assata and An American Radical -- "These women, like myself" : Becoming Ms. Burton and rereading prison life writing in a time of crisis. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 07, 2021). |
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