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Witness in the era of mass incarceration : discovering the ethical prison / Doran Larson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larson, Doran, author.
- Series:
- Law, Culture, and the Humanities Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imprisonment--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Imprisonment.
- Prisoners as authors.
- Prisoners' writings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (197 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, [Wisconsin] ; Teaneck, [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Toward a prison poetics
- Poetry, pain, and reconstructive resistance
- Three studies in testamentary reconstruction
- B(e)aring bare life : ethnic American prison writing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
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