Witness in the era of mass incarceration : discovering the ethical prison / / Doran Larson
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| Autore: |
Larson Doran
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| Titolo: |
Witness in the era of mass incarceration : discovering the ethical prison / / Doran Larson
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| Pubblicazione: | Madison, [Wisconsin] ; ; Teaneck, [New Jersey] : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2017 |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (197 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 364 |
| Soggetto topico: | Imprisonment - Moral and ethical aspects |
| Prisoners as authors | |
| Prisoners' writings | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Toward a prison poetics -- Poetry, pain, and reconstructive resistance -- Three studies in testamentary reconstruction -- B(e)aring bare life : ethnic American prison writing. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Witness in the era of mass incarceration |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814649803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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