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Alexander Patrick Elliot <1983-> |
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From slave ship to Supermax : mass incarceration, prisoner abuse, and the new neo-slave novel / / Patrick Elliot Alexander |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; ; Rome, [Italy] ; ; Tokyo, [Japan] : , : Temple University Press, , 2018 |
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©2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Imprisonment in literature |
African American prisoners in literature |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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