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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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2009
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| Series: | Yale studies in English.
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| Acceso en liña: | 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.