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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Autor principal: Alexander, Patrick Elliot 1983- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Print Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia Rome Tokyo Temple University Press 2018
En:Año: 2018
Acceso en línea: Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag)
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Palabras clave:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
American fiction > History and criticism > 20th century
African American prisoners in literature
Imprisonment in literature
Slave trade in literature
USA > Literatur > Schwarze > Sklaverei > Motiv > Strafgefangener > Motiv
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Sumario: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
Notas:Includes bibliographical references and index
Descripción Física:xiv, 242 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
ISBN:9781439914151
9781439914144