The prison and the American imagination /

How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the question is particularly urgent. In this timely, provocative study, Cale...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Caleb, 1977- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009
Series:Yale studies in English.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=302238
Table of Contents:
  • Civil death and carceral life
  • Cadaverous triumphs
  • The meaning of solitude
  • Captivity and consciousness
  • Mississippi voices
  • Frontiers of captivity.