Witness in the era of mass incarceration : discovering the ethical prison /

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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 to...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Larson, Doran, 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2017]
Series:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities.
Subjects:
Imprisonment > Moral and ethical aspects.
Prisoners as authors.
Prisoners' writings.
Emprisonnement > Aspect moral.
Écrivains prisonniers.
Écrits de prisonniers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Imprisonment > Moral and ethical aspects
Prisoners as authors
Prisoners' writings
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Toward a prison poetics
  • Poetry, pain, and reconstructive resistance
  • Three studies in testamentary reconstruction
  • B(e)aring bare life : ethnic American prison writing.

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