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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Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
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Philadelphia Rome Tokyo
Temple University Press
2018
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In: | Year: 2018 |
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Summary: | 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 |
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Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Physical Description: | xiv, 242 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
ISBN: | 9781439914151 9781439914144 |