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Prison life writing : conversion and the literary roots of the U.S. prison system / Simon Rolston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rolston, Simon, 1977- author.
- Series:
- Life Writing
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conversion in literature.
- Prisoners--United States--Biography--History and criticism.
- Prisoners.
- Prisoners in literature.
- Prisoners' writings, American--History and criticism.
- Prisoners' writings, American.
- Prisons--United States.
- Prisons.
- Prisons in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Prison Life Writing is the first full-length study of one of the most controversial genres in American literature. By exploring the complicated relationship between life writing and institutional power, this book reveals the overlooked aesthetic innovations of incarcerated people and the surprising literary roots of the U.S. prison system.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781771125185
- 1771125187
- 9781771125178
- 1771125179
- OCLC:
- 1226080420
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