Research Catalog

Title

Prose and cons : essays on prison literature in the United States / edited by D. Quentin Miller.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2005.

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Additional Authors

Miller, D. Quentin (Daniel Quentin), 1967-

Description

viii, 280 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The 14 essays in this work examine the last 30 years of prison literature from a wide variety of perspectives. These essays examine race, gender, ideology, aesthetics, and language"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Prisoners > United States > Intellectual life
• Prisoners in literature
• Prisoners' writings, American > History and criticism
• Prisons in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

"On the outside looking in" : white readers of nonwhite prison narratives / D. Quentin Miller -- The value of a gambler's promise : self-imprisonment and writing survival in Raymond Federman's Double or nothing / Brian D. Crawford -- Critical witnessing in Latina/o and African American prison narratives / Tiffany Ana Lopez -- "A scream that is not female and that is not male" : imprisonment and African-American gender identity in Asha Bandele's The prisoner's wife / Laura Dawkins -- Condemned men : compulsive masculinity and the convict ethic in the writing of Edward Bunker / Howard Cunnell -- Imprisoned mothers and sisters : dealing with loss through writing and solidarity / Judith Scheffler -- "Only man is miserable" : the evolving view of imprisonment in Robert Lowell's poetry / Colin Clarke -- The prison writer as ideologue : George Jackson and the Attica rebellion / Brian Conniff -- The space of the prison : the last bastion of morality? / Scott Bunyan -- Writing into the prison-industrial complex / Juda Bennett -- The ambivalence of The executioner's song : postmodern captivity from death row / Jennifer Roscher -- Prison slang and the poetics of imprisonment / Douglas Taylor -- "All I have, a lament and a boast" : why prisoners write / Bell Gale Chevigny.

ISBN

0786421460 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005016987

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library