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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"prison writing"”.
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"Our Barbed Wire Ivory Tower": Republican and Irish Republican Army Prison Writing, 1973-1999
<p>A critique of the notion that both prisons and prison literature are monolithic entities, this dissertation demonstrates the shaping power of individual historical moment and physical conditions of confinement upon the literary production of political incarceration in the North of Ireland. …
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Networks of Solidarity in Prison Writing: Facilitation of Critical Penal Discourse through the Kingston Prison for Women's Tightwire Publication
From the 1960’s-1990’s, prisoners in both North America and abroad published interconnected journals through the Penal Press. Under this umbrella of publications, the women sentenced to the Kingston Prison for Women (P4W), the only federal penitentiary for female prisoners from 1934-2000, produced …
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“The Sunlit Prison of the American Dream”: Representing Carcerality in Contemporary American Fiction
… literary authors are reconfiguring the genre of prison writing to better represent and encompass the ever-extending reach of the carceral State in the twenty-first century. This new form of prison writing can be better understood as carceral writing, as its focus extends beyond the prison cell, …
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Archival Articulations of Belonging: Resistance, Reimagination, and Resilience in School and in Incarceration
… as well. This study, which examined the American Prison Writing Archive writings of formerly and currently incarcerated individuals and their experiences of belonging during K-12 school and incarceration, used a socio-ecological lens, highlighting the reciprocal relationship between individual and …
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Negotiating truth, freedom and self : the prison narratives of some South African women
The autobiographical prison writings of four South African women - Ruth First, Caesarina Kana Makhoere, Emma Mashinini and Maggie Resha - form the focus of this study. South African autobiography is burdened with the task of producing history in the light of the silences enforced by apartheid …