Witness in the era of mass incarceration : discovering the ethical prison / Doran Larson.

Author: Larson, Doran, 1957- author

Imprint:Lanham, MD : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2017.

Descriptionxxxi, 161 p. ; 14 cm.

Note:Toward a prison poetics -- Poetry, pain and reconstructive resistance -- Three studies in testamentary reconstruction -- B(e)aring bare life: ethnic American prison writing.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note: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.

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