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Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration - Discovering the Ethical Prison (Hardcover)
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Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration - Discovering the Ethical Prison (Hardcover)
Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
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Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration works from the premise
that if the law establishes and maintains both its practical and
symbolic authority on the basis of its monopoly on legally
sanctioned violence and the suffering threatened and delivered by
such violence, then we cannot know the full human cost or concrete
moral status of any legal state without human witness to the depth
and manner of suffering meted out by such violence. The prison
writer stands in the position to offer such witness. The prison
writer knows the law's violence in the flesh. For every other
writer, reflection upon the degree and manner of suffering meted
out under legal sanction-that is, reflection upon the full human
cost of the contemporary legal order-is necessarily speculative. In
close readings of first-person witness from prisons in the U.S.,
Ireland, and Africa, Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration
discovers literary tropes that chart at once local, national, and
transnational conditions of carceral experience-the extant
conditions of legalized suffering. In exhibiting the labor required
to move from institutionalized abjection to the minimum
requirements of rights-bearing personhood, this witness offers the
sole credible vision of the possubility of a post carceral
understanding of freedom.
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