From slave ship to Supermax : mass incarceration, prisoner abuse, and the new neo-slave novel / / Patrick Elliot Alexander
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| Autore: |
Alexander Patrick Elliot <1983->
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| Titolo: |
From slave ship to Supermax : mass incarceration, prisoner abuse, and the new neo-slave novel / / Patrick Elliot Alexander
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| Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; ; Rome, [Italy] ; ; Tokyo, [Japan] : , : Temple University Press, , 2018 |
| ©2018 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina: | 813/.5409896073 |
| Soggetto topico: | Imprisonment in literature |
| African American prisoners in literature | |
| American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | From slave ship to Supermax |
| ISBN: | 1-4399-1416-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910796653803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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