Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

By: Michelle Kelly and Claire Westall

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Synopsis: Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison writingand writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of literary representationand formal aesthetics, the “value” or “values” of literature,textual censorship and circulation, institutional networks and literary-criticalmethodologies. It offers scholarly essays exploring prison writingin relation to wartime internment, political imprisonment, resistance andindependence creation, regimes of terror, and personal narratives of developmentand awakening that grapple with race, class and gender. Cuttingacross geospatial divides while drawing on nation- and region-specific expertise,it asks readers to connect the questions, examples and challengesarising from prison writing and writing about imprisonment within theUK and the USA, but also across continental Europe, Stalinist Russia, theAmericas, Africa and the Middle East. It also includes critical reflectionpieces from authors, editors, educators and theatre practitioners with experienceof the fraught, testing and potentially inspiring links between prisonand the literary world.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 266 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000215939
Related ISBNs:: 9780367616328, 9780367616236, 9781003105787
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/29/20
Copyrighted By:: Taylor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Michelle Kelly
Edited by:: Claire Westall