LEADER 04520nam 2200733 450 001 9910455497203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-02353-5 010 $a9786612023538 010 $a1-4426-7494-6 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442674943 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004059 035 $a(OCoLC)431575328 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10226357 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000296524 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11244995 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000296524 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10326561 035 $a(PQKB)11555686 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600404 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3257957 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671518 035 $a(DE-B1597)464476 035 $a(OCoLC)1004875151 035 $a(OCoLC)944178183 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442674943 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671518 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257226 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL202353 035 $a(OCoLC)958558729 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004059 100 $a20160922h20052005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFitting sentences $eidentity in nineteenth-and twentieth-century prison narratives /$fJason Haslam 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2005. 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (275 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-3833-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tOpening Statements -- $tPART ONE: The Carceral Society -- $tCHAPTER ONE. 'They locked the door on my meditations': Thoreau, Society, and the Prison House of Identity -- $tCHAPTER TWO. 'Cast of Characters': Problems of Identity and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- $tPART TWO: Writing Wrongs -- $tCHAPTER THREE. 'To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law': The Paradox of the Individual in De Profundis -- $tCHAPTER FOUR. Positioning Discourse: Martin Luther King Jr's 'Letter from Birmingham City Jail' -- $tPART THREE: Prisons, Privilege, and Complicity -- $tCHAPTER FIVE. Being Jane Warton: Lady Constance Lytton and the Disruption of Privilege -- $tCHAPTER SIX. Frustrating Complicity in Breyten Breytenbach's The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist -- $tClosing Statements / Opening Arguments -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aFitting Sentences is an analysis of writings by prisoners from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in North America, South Africa, and Europe. Jason Haslam examines the ways in which these writers reconfigure subjectivity and its relation to social power structures, especially the prison structure itself, while also detailing the relationship between prison and slave narratives. Specifically, Haslam reads texts by Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Jacobs, Oscar Wilde, Martin Luther King, Jr., Constance Lytton, and Breyten Breytenbach to find the commonalities and divergences in their stories.While the relationship between prison and subjectivity has been mapped by Michel Foucault and defined as "a strategic distribution of elements" that act "to exercise a power of normalization", Haslam demonstrates some of the complex connections and dissonances between these elements and the resistances to them. Each work shows how carceral practices can be used to attack a variety of identifications, be they sexual, racial, economic, or any of a variety of social categories. By analysing the works of specific prison writers but not being limited to a single locale or narrow time span, Fitting Sentences offers a significant historical and global overview of a unique genre in literature. 606 $aPrisoners' writings$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) 606 $aImprisonment$xHistory$y19th century$vSources 606 $aImprisonment$xHistory$y20th century$vSources 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPrisoners' writings$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) 615 0$aImprisonment$xHistory 615 0$aImprisonment$xHistory 676 $a828/.08 700 $aHaslam$b Jason W$g(Jason William),$f1971-$01055624 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455497203321 996 $aFitting sentences$92489185 997 $aUNINA