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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814649803321

Autore

Larson Doran

Titolo

Witness in the era of mass incarceration : discovering the ethical prison / / Doran Larson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, [Wisconsin] ; ; Teaneck, [New Jersey] : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2017

©2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Law, Culture, and the Humanities Series

Disciplina

364

Soggetti

Imprisonment - Moral and ethical aspects

Prisoners as authors

Prisoners' writings

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Toward a prison poetics -- Poetry, pain, and reconstructive resistance -- Three studies in testamentary reconstruction -- B(e)aring bare life : ethnic American prison writing.

Sommario/riassunto

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.