From slave ship to supermax : mass incarceration, prisoner abuse, and the new neo-slave novel

From slave ship to supermax mass incarceration, prisoner abuse, and the new neo-slave novel

Introduction: antipanoptic expressivity and the new neo-slave novel -- Talking in George Jackson's shadow: neoslavery, police intimidation, and imprisoned intellectualism in Baldwin's If Beale Street could talk -- Middle passage reinstated: whispers from the women's prison in Morriso...

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1. Verfasser: Alexander, Patrick Elliot (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia, Rome, Tokyo Temple University Press 2018
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American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism > African American prisoners in literature > Imprisonment in literature > Slave trade in literature > USA > Literatur > Schwarze > Sklaverei > Strafgefangener
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: antipanoptic expressivity and the new neo-slave novel -- Talking in George Jackson's shadow: neoslavery, police intimidation, and imprisoned intellectualism in Baldwin's If Beale Street could talk -- Middle passage reinstated: whispers from the women's prison in Morrison's Beloved -- "Didn't I say this was worse than prison?": the slave ship-Supermax relation in Johnson's Middle passage -- "Tell them I'm a man": slavery's vestiges and imprisoned radical intellectualism in Gaines's A lesson before dying -- Epilogue: the prison classroom and the neo-abolitionist novel
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xiv, 242 Seiten
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24 cm
ISBN:9781439914151
978-1-4399-1415-1
9781439914144
978-1-4399-1414-4