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Author:   Michelle Kelly ,  Claire Westall
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.539kg
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9780367616236

ISBN 10:   0367616238
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   28 October 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgements xv Introduction: A Wide and Worlded Vision of Prison Writing 1 CLAIRE WESTALL Problems and Silences 19 1 The Credibility of Elves?: Narrative Exclusion and Prison Writing 21 SARAH COLVIN PoWs and Purges 39 2 German Military Internees Writing the First World War: Gender, Irony and Humour in the Camp Newspaper Stobsiade 41 ANNE SCHWAN 3 The Prison Writings of Nikolai Bukharin 58 HOWARD CAYGILL Prison Spaces and Nation (Re)Making 75 4 Prison Writing and the Algerian War of Independence 77 EMILIE MORIN 5 Writing from Robben Island: National Identity and the Apartheid Prison in South Africa 93 DANIEL ROUX6 Writing South Africa’s Prisons into History 110 JONNY STEINBERG Censorship, Advocacy and Text Creation 121 7 “His Enemy’s Language”: African American Prison Life Writing, the Literary Forms of Institutional Power and George Jackson’s Soledad Brother 123 SIMON ROLSTON 8 PEN and the Writer as Prisoner 139 MICHELLE KELLY 9 Scribo Ergo Sum: Creating and Publishing Guantánamo Diary 156 MOHAMEDOU OULD SLAHI AND LARRY SIEMS From Life to Fiction 171 10 Writing Against the Regime: Metafiction in the Arabic Prison Novel 173 R. SHAREAH TALEGHANI 11 Anarcha-Feminism, Prison and Utopia: The Abolitionist Politics of Alison Spedding’s De cuando en cuando Saturnina and La segunda vez como farsa 189 JOEY WHITFIELD Women, Theatre and Clean Break 207 12 Something About Us: Clean Break’s Theatre of Necessity 209 CAOIMHE MCAVINCHEY 13 Unlocking Potential: The Role of Theatre Writing in Prisons in the Work of Clean Break 227 ANNA HERRMANN, DEBORAH BRUCE AND CLARE BARSTOW Literary Workshops 237 14 Literary Studies and the Teaching of Prison Texts 239 CLAIRE WESTALL 15 Folsom Prison Writing Workshop 256 ROGER ROBINSON Index 257

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This is a collection of lively and interesting contributions to the field of prison writing, with an ambitious spread across geographies and eras. It enables us to chart the connections (or dissimilarities) of prison writing, which is exposed as an unstable practice of discontinuities. -- Dr Aylwyn Walsh, University of Leeds

Author Information

Michelle Kelly is a Departmental Lecturer in World Literature in English at the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on South African and world literature, confessional narrative forms, the intersections between law and literature, and literature and other art forms. She has published several articles on J.M.Coetzee, and is completing a monograph on Coetzee and confession. Claire Westall is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. Her forthcoming book is The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature. She is also co-author of The Public on the Public (2015), and co-editor of both Cross-Gendered Literary Voices (2012) and Literature of an Independent England (2013).

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