Wall tappings
Subtitle: an anthology of writings by women prisoners
By: edited by Judith A. Scheffler.
Contributors: Scheffler, Judith A.,  1949-
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Women prisoners  -- Biography.; Prisoners' writings.; Literature  -- Women authors.; Political prisoners  -- Biography.
Description: Breaking histories of silence and invisibility, Wall tappings presents an international collection of women's writings, from prisons around the world and across centuries. "These are the marginal texts in a tradition of marginal texts," writes Judith A. Scheffler in introducing her groundbreaking anthology of writing by women prisoners. Unique in its geographic and historical ranges, this rich collection gives a voice to women whose stories have been long neglected. Speaking from settings as diverse as a Roman prison cell in 203 AD, the labor camps of Siberia in the 1930s, and a Philippines prison in the 1980s, these writers explore the ways in which actual incarceration rests in the shadow of imprisonment within larger society.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 309-363.