02420nam 2200529 450 991079665380332120230814221333.01-4399-1416-8(CKB)4100000001038955(DLC) 2017045777(MiAaPQ)EBC5118011(Au-PeEL)EBL5118011(CaPaEBR)ebr11462699(CaONFJC)MIL1047693(OCoLC)1004770003(EXLCZ)99410000000103895520171207h20182018 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentnrdamediancrdacarrierFrom slave ship to Supermax mass incarceration, prisoner abuse, and the new neo-slave novel /Patrick Elliot AlexanderPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania ;Rome, [Italy] ;Tokyo, [Japan] :Temple University Press,2018.©20181 online resource1-4399-1415-X 1-4399-1414-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Imprisonment in literatureAfrican American prisoners in literatureAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismImprisonment in literature.African American prisoners in literature.American fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.813/.5409896073Alexander Patrick Elliot1983-1551571MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910796653803321From slave ship to Supermax3811160UNINA