Fitting Sentences : : Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Prison Narratives / / Jason Haslam.
Fitting Sentences is an analysis of writings by prisoners from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in North America, South Africa, and Europe. Jason Haslam examines the ways in which these writers reconfigure subjectivity and its relation to social power structures, especially the prison structur...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Opening Statements
- PART ONE: The Carceral Society
- CHAPTER ONE. 'They locked the door on my meditations': Thoreau, Society, and the Prison House of Identity
- CHAPTER TWO. 'Cast of Characters': Problems of Identity and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- PART TWO: Writing Wrongs
- CHAPTER THREE. 'To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law': The Paradox of the Individual in De Profundis
- CHAPTER FOUR. Positioning Discourse: Martin Luther King Jr's 'Letter from Birmingham City Jail'
- PART THREE: Prisons, Privilege, and Complicity
- CHAPTER FIVE. Being Jane Warton: Lady Constance Lytton and the Disruption of Privilege
- CHAPTER SIX. Frustrating Complicity in Breyten Breytenbach's The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
- Closing Statements / Opening Arguments
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index