"On the outside looking in" : white readers of nonwhite prison narratives / D. Quentin Miller -- The value of a gambler's promise : self-imprisonment and writing survival in Raymond Federman's Double or nothing / Brian D. Crawford -- Critical witnessing in Latina/o and African American prison narratives / Tiffany Ana Lopez -- "A scream that is not female and that is not male" : imprisonment and African-American gender identity in Asha Bandele's The prisoner's wife / Laura Dawkins -- Condemned men : compulsive masculinity and the convict ethic in the writing of Edward Bunker / Howard Cunnell -- Imprisoned mothers and sisters : dealing with loss through writing and solidarity / Judith Scheffler -- "Only man is miserable" : the evolving view of imprisonment in Robert Lowell's poetry / Colin Clarke -- The prison writer as ideologue : George Jackson and the Attica rebellion / Brian Conniff -- The space of the prison : the last bastion of morality? / Scott Bunyan -- Writing into the prison-industrial complex / Juda Bennett -- The ambivalence of The executioner's song : postmodern captivity from death row / Jennifer Roscher -- Prison slang and the poetics of imprisonment / Douglas Taylor -- "All I have, a lament and a boast" : why prisoners write / Bell Gale Chevigny.
Summary:
"The 14 essays in this work examine the last 30 years of prison literature from a wide variety of perspectives. These essays examine race, gender, ideology, aesthetics, and language"--Provided by publisher.
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