Fitting Sentences : Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Prison Narratives

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Fitting Sentences : Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Prison Narratives

Haslam, Jason

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University of Toronto Press（2005/12発売）
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ポイント 186pt

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製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 270 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9780802038333
DDC分類 809.393556

Full Description

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 structure itself, while also detailing the relationship between prison and slave narratives. Specifically, Haslam reads texts by Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Jacobs, Oscar Wilde, Martin Luther King, Jr., Constance Lytton, and Breyten Breytenbach to find the commonalities and divergences in their stories.

While the relationship between prison and subjectivity has been mapped by Michel Foucault and defined as "a strategic distribution of elements" that act "to exercise a power of normalization", Haslam demonstrates some of the complex connections and dissonances between these elements and the resistances to them. Each work shows how carceral practices can be used to attack a variety of identifications, be they sexual, racial, economic, or any of a variety of social categories. By analysing the works of specific prison writers but not being limited to a single locale or narrow time span, Fitting Sentences offers a significant historical and global overview of a unique genre in literature.

Acknowledgments

Opening Statements

Part One: The Carceral Society

'They locked the door on my meditations': Thoreau, Society, and the Prison House of Identity
'Cast of Characters': Problems of Identity and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Part Two: Writing Wrongs

'To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law': The Paradox of the Individual in De Profundis
Positioning Discourse: Martin Luther King Jr's 'Letter from Birmingham City Jail'

Part Three: Prisons, Privilege, and Complicity

Being Jane Warton: Lady Constance Lytton and the Disruption of Privilege
Frustrating Complicity in Breyten Breytenbach's The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist

Closing Statements / Opening Arguments

Notes

Works Cited

Index