Fitting Sentences
Subtitle: Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Prison Narratives
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: December 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780802038333
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Collections; Literature: Classics; Books & Reading; Literary Collections / General; General; 19th century; History; History and criticism; Identity (Psychology); Imprisonment; Prisoners' writings; Sources
First sentence: A history of prisons is a history of prisoners.
Description: "Fitting Sentences is an analysis of writings by prisoners from nineteenth- and twentieth-century North America, South Africa, and Europe. Jason Haslam examines the ways in which these writers reconfigure subjectivity and its relationship with social power structures, especially the prison itself, while also detailing the relationship between prison and slave narratives. Specifically, Haslam reads texts by Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Jacobs, Oscar Wilde, Martin Luther King, Jr, Constance Lytton, and Breyten Breytenbach to find the commonalities and divergences in their stories."--Jacket.