From the plantation to the prison : African-American confinement literature /

From the plantation to the prison : African-American confinement literature /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Green, Tara T.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, [2008]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Voices of the African diaspora.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Imprisonment in literature.
Prisoners in literature.
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.