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Prison Writing of Latin America (Paperback)
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What happens inside Latin American prisons? How does the social
organisation of prisoners relate to the political structures beyond
the walls? Is it possible to resist corrupt penal regimes? In
Prison Writing of Latin America, Joey Whitfield turns to those best
placed to answer these questions: people who have been imprisoned
themselves. Drawing on a century of material produced by Latin
American prisoners from Mexico, Cuba, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru,
Bolivia and Brazil, Whitfield weaves readings of novels, memoirs
and testimonial texts with social and political analysis. Rather
than distinguishing between dictatorial and democratic periods of
government, he shows that from the point of view of the prisoner,
all states are authoritarian in nature. In the face of oppression,
however, prisoners both 'political' and 'criminal' have found ways
not only to resist but also to create alternative communities both
real and imagined, sometimes in collaboration with each other.
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