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Captivating Subjects - Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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Captivating Subjects - Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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Ever since Michel Foucault's highly regarded work on prisons and
confinement in the 1970s, critical examination of the forerunners
to the prison - slavery, serfdom, and colonial confinements - has
been rare. However, these institutions inform and participate in
many of the same ideologies that the prison enforces. Captivating
Subjects is a collection of essays that fills several crucial gaps
in the critical examination of the relations between Western
state-sanctioned confinement, identity, nation, and literature.
Editors Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright have brought together an
esteemed group of international scholars to examine
nineteenth-century writings by prisoners, slaves, and other
captives, tracing some of the continuities among the varieties of
captivity and their crucial relationship to post-Enlightenment
subjectivities. This volume is the first sustained examination of
the ways in which the diverse kinds of confinement intersect with
Western ideologies of subjectivity, investigating the modern
nation-state's reliance on captivity as a means of consolidating
notions of individual and national sovereignty. It details the
specific historical and cultural practices of confinement and their
relations to each other and to punishment through a range of
national contexts.
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