From the plantation to the prison : African-American confinement literature /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Macon, Ga. :
Mercer University Press,
[2008]
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Series: | Voices of the African diaspora.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Identifying the boundaries of confinement
- Writing from no man's land: the Black man's quest for freedom from behind the walls / by Carol E. Henderson
- Lessons before dying: the contemporary confined character-in-process / by Dana A. Williams
- Mind-blown: possibility and trauma in Native son / by Terry Bozeman
- Part II: Confined spaces and places
- Ernest J. Gaines's A lesson before dying: freedom in confined spaces / by Katherine Daley and Carolyn M. Jones
- Doing time in/as "The monster": abject identity in African-American prison literature / by Kimberly Drake
- Faith's fickle covenant: African-American captivity narratives from the Vietnam War / by Jeff Loeb.