Fitting Sentences: Identity in Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Prison Narratives

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Fitting Sentences is an analysis of writings by prisoners from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in North America, South Africa, and Europe. Jason Haslam examines the ways in which these writers reconfigure subjectivity and its relation to social power structures, especially the prison structure itself, while also detailing the relationship between prison and slave narratives. Specifically, Haslam reads texts by Henry David Thoreau, Harriet...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0802038336

ISBN13:9780802038333

Release Date:December 2005

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Length:270 Pages

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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