Part I: Identifying the boundaries of confinement -- Writing from no man's land: the Black man's quest for freedom from behind the walls / by Carol E. Henderson -- Lessons before dying: the contemporary confined character-in-process / by Dana A. Williams -- Mind-blown: possibility and trauma in Native son / by Terry Bozeman -- Part II: Confined spaces and places -- Ernest J. Gaines's A lesson before dying: freedom in confined spaces / by Katherine Daley and Carolyn M. Jones -- Doing time in/as "The monster": abject identity in African-American prison literature / by Kimberly Drake -- Faith's fickle covenant: African-American captivity narratives from the Vietnam War / by Jeff Loeb.
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