Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration - Discovering the Ethical Prison

This book places prison witness at the center of discussions of the human experience of law and order, and of the nature of the rights-bearing person. Readings of canonical and contemporary writers facing incarceration yield abiding literary tropes that chart the path from institutional abjection toward the minimal threshold of personhood.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Toward a Prison Poetics
2. Poetry, Pain, and Reconstructive Resistance
3. Three Studies in Testamentary Reconstruction
4. B(e)aring Bare Life: Ethnic American Prison Writing
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Doran Larson is Wolcott-Bartlett Professor of Literature & Creative Writing at Hamilton College, where he directs The American Prison Writing Archive.

Product details

• Authors: Doran Larson
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2017
• EAN: 9781611479829
• ISBN: 978-1-61147-982-9
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 443 g
• Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama