Prose and Cons

副标题: Essays on Prison Literature in the United States

ISBN: 9780786421466

出版社: McFarland & Company

出版年: 2005-9-20

页数: 288

定价: USD 39.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

As the United States? prison population has exploded over the past 30 years, a rich, provocative and ever-increasing body of literature has emerged, written either by prisoners or by those who have come in close contact with them. Unlike earlier prison writings, contemporary literature moves in directions that are neither uniformly ideological nor uniformly political. It has become increasingly personal, and the obsessive subject is the way identity is shaped, compromised, altered, or obliterated by incarceration. The 14 essays in this work examine the last 30 years of prison literature from a wide variety of perspectives. The first four essays examine race and ethnicity, the social categories most evident in U.S. prisons.