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Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Guide

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Availability:In StockContributor:Julian MurphetPublish date:2023-12-06Pages:232
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399513968ISBN-10:1399513966UPC:9781399513968Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, ModernBook Topic:Politics, 20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SCFY57RN59
Tracking the evolutionary arc of prison writing across the twentieth century in an international and comparative framework, this study proposes an integrated account of the major shifts and movements in this relatively neglected genre of autobiography. Dwelling on works--memoirs, novellas, poems--by actual detainees, the book offers a close stylistic analysis of 12 important texts to show how prison writing moved away from the confessional and self-scrutinizing modes of an earlier tradition, to espouse openly political sentiments and solidarities. Looking at works by Oscar Wilde, Rosa Luxemburg, Ezra Pound, Primo Levi, Bobby Sands, Angela Davis, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and Behrouz Boochani (among others), the book shows how themes such as the annihilation of experience, dehumanization, sensory deprivation, brutality, and numbing routine are woven into distinctive textual artefacts that give evidence of an abiding human resilience in the face of raw state power.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399513968ISBN-10:1399513966UPC:9781399513968Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, ModernBook Topic:Politics, 20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SCFY57RN59

Julian Murphet is Jury Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Adelaide. He is the author, previously, of Literature and Race in Los Angeles (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Multimedia Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Faulkner's Media Romance (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Todd Solondz (Northern Illinois University Press, 2019), and of the forthcoming Modern Character: 1888-1905 (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Twentieth-Century Prison Writing: A Literary Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).


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