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Prose and Cons: Essays on Prison Literature in the United States Book

Prose and Cons: Essays on Prison Literature in the United States
Prose and Cons: Essays on Prison Literature in the United States, 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 wr, Prose and Cons: Essays on Prison Literature in the United States has a rating of 3 stars
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  • Prose and Cons: Essays on Prison Literature in the United States
  • Written by author D. Quentin Miller
  • Published by McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, August 2005
  • 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 wr
  • With its exploding prison population in the last 30 years, it is not surprising that the US has seen a number of significant works as well as significant changes in prisoner-authors' styles and themes. In this collection of 13 essays, contributors describ
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1"On the outside looking in" : white readers of nonwhite prison narratives15
2The value of a Gambler's promise : self-imprisonment and writing survival in Raymond Federman's double or nothing33
3Critical witnessing in Latina/o and African American prison narratives62
4"A scream that is not female and that is not male" : imprisonment and African-American gender identity in Asha Bandele's The prisoner's wife81
5Condemned men : compulsive masculinity and the convict ethic in the writing of Edward Bunker95
6Imprisoned mothers and sisters : dealing with loss through writing and solidarity111
7"Only man is miserable" : the evolving view of imprisonment in Robert Lowell's poetry131
8The prison writer as ideologue : George Jackson and the Attica rebellion147
9The space of the prison : the last bastion of morality?174
10Writing into the prison-industrial complex203
11The ambivalence of the executioner's song : postmodern captivity from death row217
12Prison slang and the poetics of imprisonment233
13"All I have, a lament and a boast" : why prisoners write246


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