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Fitting Sentences : Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Prison Narratives.
By analysing the works of specific prison writers but not being limited to a single locale or narrow time span, <span style=""font-style: italic;"">Fitting Sentences offers a significant historical and global overview of a unique genre in literature.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2005.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Opening Statements
- Part One: The Carceral Society
- 1 'They locked the door on my meditations': Thoreau, Society, and the Prison House of Identity
- 2 'Cast of Characters': Problems of Identity and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Part Two: Writing Wrongs
- 3 'To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law': The Paradox of the Individual in De Profundis
- 4 Positioning Discourse: Martin Luther King Jr's 'Letter from Birmingham City Jail'
- Part Three: Prisons, Privilege, and Complicity
- 5 Being Jane Warton: Lady Constance Lytton and the Disruption of Privilege
- 6 Frustrating Complicity in Breyten Breytenbach's The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
- Closing Statements / Opening Arguments
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.