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From Slave Ship to Supermax - Mass Incarceration, Prisoner Abuse, and the New Neo-Slave Novel (Paperback)
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From Slave Ship to Supermax - Mass Incarceration, Prisoner Abuse, and the New Neo-Slave Novel (Paperback)
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In his cogent and groundbreaking book, From Slave Ship to Supermax,
Patrick Elliot Alexander argues that the disciplinary logic and
violence of slavery haunt depictions of the contemporary U.S.
prison in late twentieth-century Black fiction. Alexander links
representations of prison life in James Baldwin's novel If Beale
Street Could Talk to his engagements with imprisoned intellectuals
like George Jackson, who exposed historical continuities between
slavery and mass incarceration. Likewise, Alexander reveals how
Toni Morrison's Beloved was informed by Angela Y. Davis's jail
writings on slavery-reminiscent practices in contemporary women's
facilities. Alexander also examines recurring associations between
slave ships and prisons in Charles Johnson's Middle Passage, and
connects slavery's logic of racialized premature death to scenes of
death row imprisonment in Ernest Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying.
Alexander ultimately makes the case that contemporary Black
novelists depict racial terror as a centuries-spanning social
control practice that structured carceral life on slave ships and
slave plantations-and that mass-produces prisoners and prisoner
abuse in post-Civil Rights America. These authors expand free
society's view of torment confronted and combated in the prison
industrial complex, where discriminatory laws and the
institutionalization of secrecy have reinstated slavery's system of
dehumanization.
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