RT Book
T1 From slave ship to supermax: mass incarceration, prisoner abuse, and the new neo-slave novel
A1 Alexander, Patrick Elliot 1983-
LA English
PP Philadelphia Rome Tokyo
PB Temple University Press
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1000178064
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN PS153.N5
SN 9781439914151
SN 9781439914144
K1 American fiction : African American authors : History and criticism
K1 American fiction : 20th century : History and criticism
K1 African American prisoners in literature
K1 Imprisonment in literature
K1 Slave trade in literature
K1 American fiction : History and criticism : 20th century
K1 USA : Literatur : Schwarze : Sklaverei : Motiv : Strafgefangener : Motiv