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Crime in literature. --- Prisons in literature. --- Prisoners in literature.
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Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. In the previous centuries we find only isolated examples of prison writings, but the religious and political instability of the Tudor reigns provided the conditions for the practice to thrive. This book shows the wide variety of genres that prisoners wrote, and it explores the subtle tricks they employed in order to appropriate the site of the prison for their own agendas. Ahnert charts the spreading influence of such works beyond the prison cell, tracing the textual communities they constructed, and the ways in which writings were smuggled out of prison and then disseminated through script and print.
Prisoners' writings --- Prisoners in literature. --- Writings of prisoners --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities
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This all-new collection examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration as explored in contemporary theatre.
Drama --- Prisons in literature. --- Prisoners in literature. --- Imprisonment in literature. --- History and criticism.
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Through a series of insightful and sophisticated readings, this book reveals the worldliness of premodern Persian poetry. It traces the political role of poetry in shaping the prison poem genre (habsiyyat) across 12th-century Central, South and West Asia., offering an unprecedented account of prison poetry before modernity.
Persian poetry --- Prisoners in literature. --- Prisons in literature. --- History and criticism.
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Thematology --- Spanish literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- Prisoners in literature --- Slavery in literature --- -Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Appreciation --- -Prisoners in literature --- -Appreciation --- -Thematology --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- History and criticism --- Enslaved persons in literature
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"Literary representations of British convicts exiled to Australia were the most likely way that the typical English reader would learn about the new colonies there. In Transported to Botany Bay, Dorice Williams Elliott examines how writers--from canonical ones such as Dickens and Trollope to others who were themselves convicts--used the figure of the felon exiled to Australia to construct class, race, and national identity as intertwined. Even as England's supposedly ancient social structure was preserved and venerated as the 'true' England, the transportation of some 168,000 convicts facilitated the birth of a new nation with more fluid class relations for those who didn't fit into the prevailing national image. In analyzing novels, broadsides, and first-person accounts, Elliott demonstrates how Britain linked class, race, and national identity at a key historical moment when it was still negotiating its relationship with its empire. The events and incidents depicted as taking place literally on the other side of the world, she argues, deeply affected people's sense of their place in their own society, with transnational implications that are still relevant today"--
English fiction --- Exiles in literature. --- Prisoners in literature. --- Penal colonies in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Australia --- In literature.
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"This book investigates the experience of political prisoners under dictatorial regimes in Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina during the second part of the 20th century. The analysis illuminates certain unique events that occurred in the dungeons of the dictatorship, such as escapes and liberations, to think about the impact of the revolutionary imaginary in the construction of political subjectivity, narratives about leftist militancy and historical memory. These prison events marked the moment of greatest strength and greatest weakness of the revolutionary project: on the one hand, they challenged and outwitted ferocious dictatorships, and on the other, they exposed the political fantasies of the left that preceded the subsequent catastrophic defeat. The reading hypothesis is that the distance between the great revolutionary event, which never took place, and these singular events that seemed to "confirm" its arrival, has been inserted as a modus operandi of political subjectivation, disarticulating the horizon of contemporary radical transformation"--
Politics in literature. --- Prisoners in literature. --- Political prisoners --- Political prisoners' writings --- Latin American literature --- History and criticism. --- Puig, Manuel. --- Boal, Augusto. --- Roa Bastos, Augusto,
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Australian fiction --- Prisoners in literature. --- Penal colonies in literature. --- Captivité --- Littérature australienne --- History and criticism. --- Dans la littérature --- Captivité --- Littérature australienne --- Dans la littérature
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Prisoners in literature. --- Prisoners --- Prisoners' writings, Soviet --- Russian literature --- Intellectual life. --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life --- History and criticism --- Prisoners in literature --- Convicts --- Correctional institutions --- Imprisoned persons --- Incarcerated persons --- Prison inmates --- Inmates of institutions --- Soviet prisoners' writings --- Soviet literature --- Inmates --- Persons
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