The prison and the American imagination /

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How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the question is particularly urgent. In this timely, provocative study, Cale...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Caleb, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Series:Yale studies in English.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Imprisonment in literature.
Prisoners > United States > Intellectual life.
Prisons in literature.
Emprisonnement dans la littérature.
Prisonniers > États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle.
Prisons dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
American literature
Imprisonment in literature
Prisoners > Intellectual life
Prisons in literature
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Civil death and carceral life
  • Cadaverous triumphs
  • The meaning of solitude
  • Captivity and consciousness
  • Mississippi voices
  • Frontiers of captivity.

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