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The prison and the American imagination / / Caleb Smith



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Autore: Smith Caleb <1977-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The prison and the American imagination / / Caleb Smith Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/9206927
Soggetto topico: American literature - History and criticism
Imprisonment in literature
Prisoners - United States - Intellectual life
Prisons in literature
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Part One. Buried Alive -- Part Two. Born Again -- Part Three. Afterlives -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the question is particularly urgent. In this timely, provocative study, Caleb Smith argues that the dehumanization inherent in captivity has always been at the heart of American civil society.Exploring legal, political, and literary texts-including the works of Dickinson, Melville, and Emerson-Smith shows how alienation and self-reliance, social death and spiritual rebirth, torture and penitence came together in the prison, a scene for the portrayal of both gothic nightmares and romantic dreams. Demonstrating how the "cellular soul" has endured since the antebellum age, The Prison and the American Imagination offers a passionate and haunting critique of the very idea of solitude in American life.
Titolo autorizzato: The prison and the American imagination  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35324-1
9786612353246
0-300-15630-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820935503321
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