Fitting Sentences : Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Prison Narratives /

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"Fitting Sentences is an analysis of writings by prisoners from nineteenth- and twentieth-century North America, South Africa, and Europe. Jason Haslam examines the ways in which these writers reconfigure subjectivity and its relationship with social power structures, especially the prison itse...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Haslam, Jason, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Prisoners' writings.
Imprisonment.
Identity (Psychology)
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Emprisonnement > Histoire > 20e siecle > Sources.
Emprisonnement > Histoire > 19e siecle > Sources.
Identite (Psychologie)
Écrits de prisonniers > Histoire et critique.
Imprisonment > History > 20th century > Sources.
Imprisonment > History > 19th century > Sources.
Prisoners' writings > History and criticism.
Sources.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "They locked the door on my meditations" : Thoreau, society, and the prison house of identity
  • "Cast of characters" : problems of identity and Incidents in the life of a slave girl
  • "To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law" : the paradox of the individual in De profundis
  • Positioning discourse : Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham city jail"
  • Being Jane Warton : Lady Constance Lytton and the disruption of privilege
  • Frustrating complicity in Breyten Breytenbach's The true confessions of an albino terrorist.

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