From slave ship to Supermax : mass incarceration, prisoner abuse, and the new neo-slave novel /

In his cogent and groundbreaking book, From Slave Ship to Supermax, Patrick Elliot Alexander argues that the disciplinary logic and violence of slavery haunt depictions of the contemporary U.S. prison in late twentieth-century Black fiction. Alexander links representations of prison life in James Ba...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alexander, Patrick Elliot, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2017.
Temas:
1900-1999
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
African American prisoners in literature.
Imprisonment in literature.
Slave trade in literature.
Roman américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Prisonniers noirs américains dans la littérature.
Emprisonnement dans la littérature.
Traite des esclaves dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African American prisoners in literature
American fiction
American fiction > African American authors
Imprisonment in literature
Slave trade in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: antipanoptic expressivity and the new neo-slave novel
  • Talking in George Jackson's shadow: neoslavery, police intimidation, and imprisoned intellectualism in Baldwin's If Beale Street could talk
  • Middle passage reinstated: whispers from the women's prison in Morrison's Beloved
  • "Didn't I say this was worse than prison?": the slave ship-Supermax relation in Johnson's Middle passage
  • "Tell them I'm a man": slavery's vestiges and imprisoned radical intellectualism in Gaines's A lesson before dying
  • Epilogue: the prison classroom and the neo-abolitionist novel.

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