TY - BOOK ID - 77890074 TI - Captivating subjects : writing confinement, citizenship, and nationhood in the nineteenth century AU - Haslam, Jason W. AU - Wright, Julia M. PY - 2005 SN - 144262812X 1281992690 9786611992699 1442672730 9781442672734 9781281992697 0802089682 9780802089687 0802065600 1442659386 1487526148 PB - Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - Captivity narratives KW - Prisoners' writings KW - Imprisonment KW - Subjectivity. KW - Writings of prisoners KW - Literature KW - Autobiography KW - Prose literature KW - Subjectivism KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Relativity KW - Confinement KW - Incarceration KW - Corrections KW - Detention of persons KW - Punishment KW - Prison-industrial complex KW - Prisons KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - School-to-prison pipeline UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77890074 AB - Ever since Michel Foucault's highly regarded work on prisons and confinement in the 1970s, critical examination of the forerunners to the prison - slavery, serfdom, and colonial confinements - has been rare. However, these institutions inform and participate in many of the same ideologies that the prison enforces.Captivating Subjectsis a collection of essays that fills several crucial gaps in the critical examination of the relations between Western state-sanctioned confinement, identity, nation, and literature. Editors Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright have brought together an esteemed group of international scholars to examine nineteenth-century writings by prisoners, slaves, and other captives, tracing some of the continuities among the varieties of captivity and their crucial relationship to post-Enlightenment subjectivities.This volume is the first sustained examination of the ways in which the diverse kinds of confinement intersect with Western ideologies of subjectivity, investigating the modern nation-state's reliance on captivity as a means of consolidating notions of individual and national sovereignty. It details the specific historical and cultural practices of confinement and their relations to each other and to punishment through a range of national contexts. ER -