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Prison Life Writing - Conversion and the Literary Roots of the U.S. Prison System (Paperback)
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Prison Life Writing - Conversion and the Literary Roots of the U.S. Prison System (Paperback)
Series: Life Writing
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Prison Life Writing is the first full-length study of one of the
most controversial genres in American literature. By exploring the
complicated relationship between life writing and institutional
power, this book reveals the overlooked aesthetic innovations of
incarcerated people and the surprising literary roots of the U.S.
prison system. Simon Rolston observes that the autobiographical
work of incarcerated people is based on a conversion narrative, a
story arc that underpins the concept of prison rehabilitation and
that sometimes serves the interests of the prison system, rather
than those on the inside. Yet many imprisoned people rework the
conversion narrative the way they repurpose other objects in
prison. Like a radio motor retooled into a tattoo gun, the
conversion narrative has been redefined by some authors for
subversive purposes, including questioning the ostensible
emancipatory role of prison writing, critiquing white supremacy,
and broadly reimagining autobiographical discourse. An
interdisciplinary work that brings life writing scholarship into
conversation with prison studies and law and literature studies,
Prison Life Writing theorizes how life writing works in prison,
explains literature's complicated entanglements with institutional
power, and demonstrates the political and aesthetic innovations of
one of America's most fascinating literary genres.
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