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04421aam a2200541 i 4500 001 DDFF0926EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220617010046 008 200924s2021 onc b 001 0 eng 020 $a 1771125179 020 $a 9781771125178 035 $a (OCoLC)1197554180 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d ICW $d NLC $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a lac 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS153.P74 $b R65 2021 055 0 $a PS153.P74 $b R65 2021 082 0 $a 810.9/9206927 $2 23 100 1 $a Rolston, Simon, $d 1977- $e author. 245 10 $a Prison life writing : $b conversion and the literary roots of the U.S. prison system / $c Simon Rolston. 246 30 $a Conversion and the literary roots of the U.S. prison system 246 3 $a Conversion and the literary roots of the United States prison system 264 1 $a Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : $b Wilfrid Laurier University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a ix, 316 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Life writing series 530 $a Issued also in electronic formats. 520 $a "The first full-length study of prison life writing, this book shows how the autobiographical literature of incarcerated people is consistently based on a conversion narrative, the same narrative that underpins prison rehabilitation. By demonstrating how prison life writing interlocks with institutional power, the book challenges conventional preconceptions about writing behind bars. And yet, imprisoned people often use the conversion narrative like they repurpose other objects in prison: much like the radio motor retooled into a tattoo gun, the conversion narrative is often redefined to serve subversive purposes like questioning the supposed emancipatory role of prison writing, critiquing white supremacy, and reconfiguring what can be said in autobiographical discourse. An interdisciplinary work that brings life writing scholarship into conversation with prison studies and law and literature studies, Prison Life Writing theorizes how life writing works in prison, explains literature's complicated entanglements with institutional power, and demonstrates the political and aesthetic innovations of one of America's most controversial literary genres."-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 269 - 291) and index. 505 0 $a Autobiography and the problem with resistance : the conversion narrative in prison discourse and US prison life writing -- Conversion and the story of the US prison -- The treatment era : African American prison life writing and the prison conversion narrative in George Jackson's Soledad Brother and James Carr's Bad -- From the treatment era to the monster factory : Carl Panzram's and Jack Henry Abbott's anticonversion narratives and the dawn of mass incarceration -- Life writing in the contemporary carceral state : Writing My Wrongs, A Place to Stand, and the making of a "better human being" -- "Love is contraband in Hell" : women's prisons, life writings, and discourses of sexuality in Assata and An American Radical -- "These women, like myself" : Becoming Ms. Burton and rereading prison life writing in a time of crisis. 650 0 $a Prisoners' writings, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Prisoners $z United States $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Prisoners in literature. 650 0 $a Prisons in literature. 650 0 $a Conversion in literature. 650 0 $a Prisons $z United States. 650 7 $a Conversion in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00877244 650 7 $a Prisoners $x Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01077108 650 7 $a Prisoners in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01077225 650 7 $a Prisoners' writings, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01077272 650 7 $a Prisons. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01077326 650 7 $a Prisons in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01077424 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Rolston, Simon, 1977- $t Prison life writing. $d Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2021 $z 9781771125185 $z 9781771125185 $w (OCoLC)1226080420 830 0 $a Life writing series. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117013137.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DDFF0926EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search