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Title:

From the plantation to the prison : African-American confinement literature / edited by Tara T. Green.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Mercer University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

182 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Imprisonment in literature.
Prisoners in literature.

Other Authors:

Green, Tara T.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Voices of the African diaspora

ISBN:

0881460907 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780881460902 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)154804867

LCCN:

2008006227

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)