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Prison writing in 20th-century America / edited by H. Bruce Franklin ; with a foreword by Tom Wicker.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners' writings, American.
- Prisoners--Literary collections.
- Prisoners.
- Prisons--Literary collections.
- Prisons.
- American literature--20th century.
- American literature.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 368 pages.)
- Other Title:
- Prison writing in twentieth-century America
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 1998.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This unique collection dramatizes the history of the modern American prison with more than 60 selections--memoirs, stories, novels, poems--written in the last 100 years.
- Contents:
- From plantation to penitentiary. Plantation prison
- Autobiography of an imprisoned peon
- Songs of the prison plantation. "Go down Old Hannah" ; " Midnight special" ; "Easy rider."
- The early modern American prison. "'Pinched : a prison experience" ; "The pen : long days in a county penitentiary" / Jack London
- from My life in prison / Donald Lowrie
- "Cell mates" / Agnes Smedley
- from Crime and criminals / Kate Richards O'Hare
- "A California holiday" / Jim Tully
- "Ladies in durance vile" / Ernest Booth
- "To what red hell?" / Chester Himes
- "El Presidente de Méjico" / Nelson Algren
- "Memories of West Street and Lepke" / Robert Lowell.
- The movement and the prison. from The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X
- from Soledad brother / George Jackson
- from The naked soul of Iceberg Slim / Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck)
- "Formula for Attica repeats" / Mshaka (Willie Monroe)
- from Seven long times / Piri Thomas
- from In the belly of the beast / Jack Henry Abbott
- from Assata / Assata Shakur (JoAnne Chesimard).
- The Literary renaissance. from On the yard / Malcolm Braly
- "The warden said to me the other day" ; "Hard Rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane" ; "For freckle-faced Gerald" / Etheridge Knight
- "Quarry/Rock : a reality poem in the tradition of Genet" ; "Always we watch them" ; "Shakedown & more" / Paul Mariah
- "In Santa Cruz" ; "The gone one" / Norma Stafford
- from "Sestina to San Quentin" ; "Poetry" ; "Who's bitter?" / William Wantling
- "Spring" ; "Confessions of a jailhouse lawyer" / Michael Hogan
- "Lower court" ; "35 years a correctional officer" ; "On being counted" / Carolyn Baxter
- "The new warden" ; "The county jail" ; "I applied for the board" / Jimmy Santiago Baca
- "Easy to kill" ; "The bus ride" / Jackie Ruzas
- from Little boy blue / Edward Bunker
- from House of slammers / Nathan C. Heard
- "Of cold places" ; "Autumn yard" ; "First day of Hanukkah" / Charles Culhane
- "Sing soft, sing loud" / Patricia McConnel
- from Notes from the country club / Kim Wozencraft
- "Diamond Bob" ; "The blues merchant" ; "Nobody's hoss" ; "Barracuda and Sheryl" ; "Shing-a-Ling and China" / Jerome Washington
- "Our skirt" ; "The call" / Kathy Boudin.
- The American Gulag today. "AIDS: The view from a prison cell" ; "A prescription for torture" ; "A Mount Everest of time" / Dannie Martin ("Red Hog")
- "B-block days and nightmares" ; "Skeleton Bay" ; "Already out of the game" / Mumia Abu-Jamal
- "Past present" / Jimmy Santiago Baca.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 17-18).
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Prison writing in 20th-century America.
- ISBN:
- 9781440621284
- 1440621284
- Publisher Number:
- 99986163151
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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