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The Story Within Us : Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading /
This book features in-depth oral interviews with eleven incarcerated women, each of whom offers a narrative of her life and her reading experiences within prison walls. The women share powerful stories about their complex and diverse efforts to negotiate difficult relationships, exercise agency in r...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : All us women have a story within us
- Mildred. Life Narrative : Society is coming to prison ; Reading Narrative : I have discovered a love for the law
- Sissy. Life Narrative : There's a time to be silent, and there's a time not to ; Reading Narrative : If you can't relate to it, then read about it
- Olivia. Life Narrative : It was a bad road that I was on ; Reading Narrative : If I'm going through a struggle, I know that's the book to go find
- Denise. Life Narrative : I can't even imagine my day without a mall ; Reading Narrative : Who is this writing books that knows the things I know?!
- Bobbie. Life Narrative : I've been overcoming all my life ; Reading Narrative : Everybody don't end up with a prince
- Melissa. Life Narrative : They're trying to brainwash me and rebuild me ; Reading Narrative : From her life story to mine is not that much difference
- Valhalla. Life Narrative : I've been like a ball that someone threw and I've been bouncing around ever since ; Reading Narrative : The books I've read are like my friends
- Jacqueline. Life Narrative : I refuse to be another statistic ; Reading Narrative : I wanted his strength to jump out of the pages into my life!
- Audrey. Life Narrative : That's a chapter that's closed ; Reading Narrative : What fueled this fire for the fire to come all the way over to here?
- Deven. Life Narrative : Society, it's a boys' club still ; Reading Narrative : I need to know what's gonna happen next!
- Solo. Life Narrative : That's a soul that you're stepping on ; Reading Narrative : Freedom for me was an evolution, not a revolution
- Afterword : True Stories about Prison
- Appendix : Study-Related Materials.