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Prison Life Writing

Simon Rolston
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Author : Simon Rolston
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781771125185

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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. Simon Rolston observes that the autobiographical work of incarcerated people is based on a conversion narrative, a story arc that underpins the concept of prison rehabilitation and that sometimes serves the interests of the prison system, rather than those on the inside. Yet many imprisoned people rework the conversion narrative the way they repurpose other objects in prison. Like a radio motor retooled into a tattoo gun, the conversion narrative has been redefined by some authors for subversive purposes, including questioning the ostensible emancipatory role of prison writing, critiquing white supremacy, and broadly reimagining autobiographical discourse. An interdisciplinary work that brings life writing scholarship into conversation with prison studies and law and literature studies, Prison Life Writing theorizes how life writing works in prison, explains literature’s complicated entanglements with institutional power, and demonstrates the political and aesthetic innovations of one of America’s most fascinating literary genres.

Writings From Prison

Bobby Sands Trust
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Author : Bobby Sands Trust
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781171103

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In this book the author chronicles the abuse by the British state of emergency laws: harassment and intimidation of civilians; injuries and deaths caused by rubber and plastic bullets; collusion between British security forces, British intelligence and loyalist paramilitaries; unjust killings and murders by the security forces; excessive punishments and degrading strip-searches in prisons – abuses ignored by all but a handful of individuals and civil rights organisations.

Prison Writings

Leonard Peltier
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Author : Leonard Peltier
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250119285

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In September of 2022, twenty-five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents, the DNC unanimously passed a resolution urging President Joe Biden to release him. Peltier has affirmed his innocence ever since his sentencing in 1977--his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen's bestselling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse--and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. Prison Writings is a wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain leads one to a transcendent reality, Peltier explores his suffering and the insights it has borne him. He also locates his experience within the history of the American Indian peoples and their struggles to overcome the federal government's injustices. Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

Doing Time

Bell Gale Chevigny
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Author : Bell Gale Chevigny
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628722185

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“Doing time.” For prison writers, it means more than serving a sentence; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself, and somehow retaining one’s humanity. For the last quarter century the prestigious writers’ organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these challenges. Bell Chevigny, a former prison teacher, has selected the best of these submissions from over the last 25 years to create Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing—a vital work, demonstrating that prison writing is a vibrant part of American literature. This new edition will contain updated biographies of all contributors. The 51 original prisoners contributing to this volume deliver surprising tales, lyrics, and dispatches from an alien world covering the life span of imprisonment, from terrifying initiations to poignant friendships, from confrontations with family to death row, and sometimes share extraordinary breakthroughs. With 1.8 million men and women—roughly the population of Houston—In American jails and prisons, we must listen to “this small country of throwaway people,” in Prejean’s words. Doing Time frees them from their sentence of silence. We owe it to ourselves to listen to their voices.

This Is Not My Life

Diane Schoemperlen
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Author : Diane Schoemperlen
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443434225

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This Is Not My Life by Diane Schoemperlen Pdf

From the Governor General’s Award winning author of Forms of Devotion, Our Lady of the Lost and Found and By the Book “Never once in my life had I dreamed of being in bed with a convicted killer.” For almost six turbulent years, award-winning writer Diane Schoemperlen was involved with a prison inmate serving a life sentence for second-degree murder. The relationship surprised no one more than her. How do you fall in love with a man with a violent past? How do you date someone who is in prison? This Is Not My Life is the story of the romance between Diane and Shane—how they met and fell in love, how they navigated passes and parole and the obstacles facing a long-term prisoner attempting to return to society, and how, eventually, things fell apart. While no relationship takes place in a vacuum, this is never more true than when that relationship is with a federal inmate. In this candid, often wry, sometimes disturbing memoir, Schoemperlen takes us inside this complex and difficult relationship as she journeys through the prison system with Shane. Not only did this relationship enlarge her capacity for both empathy and compassion, but it also forced her to more deeply examine herself.

Prison Writing in 20th-Century America

H. Bruce Franklin
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Author : H. Bruce Franklin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140273050

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"Harrowing in their frank detail and desperate tone, the selections in this anthology pack an emotional wallop...Should be required reading for anyone concerned about the violence in our society and the high rate of recidivism."—Publishers Weekly. Includes work by: Jack London, Nelson Algren, Chester Himes,Jack Henry Abbott, Robert Lowell, Malcolm X, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Piri Thomas.

Prison Writing and the Literary World

Michelle Kelly,Claire Westall
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Author : Michelle Kelly,Claire Westall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000215939

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Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison writing and writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of literary representation and formal aesthetics, the “value” or “values” of literature, textual censorship and circulation, institutional networks and literary-critical methodologies. It offers scholarly essays exploring prison writing in relation to wartime internment, political imprisonment, resistance and independence creation, regimes of terror, and personal narratives of development and awakening that grapple with race, class and gender. Cutting across geospatial divides while drawing on nation- and region-specific expertise, it asks readers to connect the questions, examples and challenges arising from prison writing and writing about imprisonment within the UK and the USA, but also across continental Europe, Stalinist Russia, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East. It also includes critical reflection pieces from authors, editors, educators and theatre practitioners with experience of the fraught, testing and potentially inspiring links between prison and the literary world.

Writing My Wrongs

Shaka Senghor
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Author : Shaka Senghor
Publisher : Convergent Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101907313

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary, unforgettable” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America’s mass incarceration epidemic, from a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100 Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle-class neighborhood on Detroit’s east side during the height of the 1980s crack epidemic. An honor roll student and a natural leader, he dreamed of becoming a doctor—but at age eleven, his parents’ marriage began to unravel, and beatings from his mother worsened, which sent him on a downward spiral. He ran away from home, turned to drug dealing to survive, and ended up in prison for murder at the age of nineteen, full of anger and despair. Writing My Wrongs is the story of what came next. During his nineteen-year incarceration, seven of which were spent in solitary confinement, Senghor discovered literature, meditation, self-examination, and the kindness of others—tools he used to confront the demons of his past, forgive the people who hurt him, and begin atoning for the wrongs he had committed. Upon his release at age thirty-eight, Senghor became an activist and mentor to young men and women facing circumstances like his. His work in the community and the courage to share his story led him to fellowships at the MIT Media Lab and the Kellogg Foundation and invitations to speak at events like TED and the Aspen Ideas Festival. In equal turns, Writing My Wrongs is a page-turning portrait of life in the shadow of poverty, violence, and fear; an unforgettable story of redemption; and a compelling witness to our country’s need for rethinking its approach to crime, prison, and the men and women sent there.

Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence between Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke, 1944-45

Helmuth Caspar von Moltke,Johannes von Moltke,Dorothea von Moltke
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Author : Helmuth Caspar von Moltke,Johannes von Moltke,Dorothea von Moltke
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681373829

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Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence between Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke, 1944-45 by Helmuth Caspar von Moltke,Johannes von Moltke,Dorothea von Moltke Pdf

Available for the first time in English, a moving prison correspondence between a husband and wife who resisted the Nazis. Tegel prison, Berlin, in the fall of 1944. Helmuth James von Moltke is awaiting trial for his leading role in the Kreisau Circle, one of the most important German resistance groups against the Nazis. By a near miracle, the prison chaplain at Tegel is Harald Poelchau, a friend and coconspirator of Helmuth and his wife, Freya. From Helmuth’s arrival at Tegel in late September 1944 until the day of his execution by the Nazis on January 23, 1945, Poelchau would carry Helmuth’s and Freya’s letters in and out of prison daily, risking his own life. Freya would safeguard these letters for the rest of her long life. Last Letters is a profoundly personal record of the couple’s fortitude in the face of fascism.

Writing on the Wall

Mumia Abu Jamal
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Author : Mumia Abu Jamal
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780872866553

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Mumia Abu Jamal’s essential perspectives on black experience, race relations, freedom, justice, social change, and the future of American society.

Writings from Prison

Leyla Zana
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Author : Leyla Zana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000076434509

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"This book is a collection of Leyla Zana's personal letters and statements written from Ankara prison since her arrest and imprisonment by the Turkish security forces in 1994."--BOOK JACKET.

Letters from Prison

Antonio Gramsci
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Author : Antonio Gramsci
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0231075545

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Hailed by Terry Eagleton in the Guardian as "definitive," this is the only complete and authoritative edition of Antonio Gramsci's deeply personal and vivid prison letters.

Prison Writings

Abdullah Ocalan
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Author : Abdullah Ocalan
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015069336181

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Venezuela has become a huge source of hope and inspiration for the Left throughout the world. Some see it as a shining example of how to begin building a successful socialist state, but Western leaders see it as a dangerous enemy and accuse President Hugo Chavez of being a dictator. This book reveals the truth by examining the country from the ground up. Iain Bruce explores the political changes underway in Venezuela at the level of the lives of ordinary people. Through grassroots investigations and extended interviews, he explores a series of key transformations: a new social economy around a network of cooperatives; workplace democracy; popular education; radical agrarian reform; participatory budgets and community planning. The result is a clear picture of everyday life in Venezuela. No other book on the country has this level of detail; it will be a key text for students of Latin American politics and social movements and of interest to anyone following the fortunes of the Bolivarian Revolution.

Prison Letters

Nelson Mandela
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Author : Nelson Mandela
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631495960

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“Heartbreaking and inspiring,” Nelson Mandela’s Prison Letters reveals his evolution “into one of the great moral heroes of our time” (New York Times). First published to mark the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela sparked celebrations around the globe for one of the “greatest warriors of all time” (O, The Oprah Magazine). Featuring 94 letters selected from that landmark collection, as well as six new letters that have never been published, this historic paperback provides an essential political history of the late twentieth century and illustrates how Mandela maintained his inner spirit while imprisoned. Whether they’re longing love letters to his wife, Winnie; heartrending notes to his beloved children; or articulations of a human-rights philosophy that resonates today, these letters reveal the heroism of a man who refused to compromise his moral values in the face of extraordinary human punishment, invoking a “story beyond their own words” (New York Times). This new paperback edition—essential for any literature lover, political activist, and student—positions Mandela among the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century.

The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde
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Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Prisoners' writings
ISBN : 0674984382

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The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Serving prison time with hard labor for the crime of gross indecency, Oscar Wilde wrote some of his most powerful works. A savage indictment of society, and testimony to private sufferings, his prison writings--illuminated by Nicholas Frankel's notes--reveal a different man from the dandy and aesthete who shocked or amused the English-speaking world.