Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Prison Life Writing is the first full-length study of one of the most controversial genres in American literature. By exploring the complicated relationship between life writing and institutional power, this book reveals the overlooked aesthetic innovations of incarcerated people and the surprising literary roots of the U.S. prison system.

Conversion in literature. --- Prisoners in literature. --- Prisoners' writings, American --- Prisoners --- Prisons in literature. --- Prisons --- Conversion dans la littérature. --- Écrits de prisonniers américains --- Prisonniers dans la littérature. --- Prisonniers --- Prisons dans la littérature. --- History and criticism. --- Biography --- Histoire et critique. --- Biographies --- United States. --- Criminology --- American Literature --- Social Science --- Literary Criticism