01945nam 2200457 450 991081464980332120180821111622.0(CKB)3710000001417123(MiAaPQ)EBC4921940(EXLCZ)99371000000141712320170818h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierWitness in the era of mass incarceration discovering the ethical prison /Doran LarsonMadison, [Wisconsin] ;Teaneck, [New Jersey] :Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,2017.©20171 online resource (197 pages) illustrationsLaw, Culture, and the Humanities Series1-61147-982-7 1-61147-983-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Toward a prison poetics -- Poetry, pain, and reconstructive resistance -- Three studies in testamentary reconstruction -- B(e)aring bare life : ethnic American prison writing.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.ImprisonmentMoral and ethical aspectsPrisoners as authorsPrisoners' writingsImprisonmentMoral and ethical aspects.Prisoners as authors.Prisoners' writings.364Larson Doran 1667602MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814649803321Witness in the era of mass incarceration4027536UNINA