Prison narratives from Boethius to Zana
By: edited by Philip Edward Phillips
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781137428677
Subjects: Prisoners' writings; History and criticism; Prisoners as authors; Prisoners; Intellectual life; Prisoners in literature; Prisons in literature; Liberty in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Philip Edward Phillips and John R. Vile; title: Boethius, the prisoner, and the consolation of philosophy / Philip Edward Phillips; title: "For this was drawyn by a knyght presoner": Sir Thomas Malory and the confined body / Amy S. Kaufman; title: The self-incriminator: John Lilburne, the Star Chamber, and the English origins of American liberty / Robb McDaniel; title: John Bunyan, Pilgrim's progress, and nonconformist prison literature / Brett Hudson; title: Henry David Thoreau and the principle of passive resistance / Tom Strawman; title: The radicalization of Louise Michel / Nancy Sloan Goldberg; title: "From prison to people": how women jailed for suffrage inscribed their prison experience upon the American public / Jane Marcellus; title: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: an exemplar of costly discipleship in action / John R. Vile; title: "The jail house is full of blues": Lead Belly's Prison pleas / Mark Allan Jackson; title: The autobiography of Malcolm X and the African American quest for freedom and literacy / Laura Dubek; title: Mehdi Zana and the struggle for Kurdish ethnic identity / Kari Neely.