{"product_id":"jail-sentences-andrew-sobanet-9780803213791","title":"Jail Sentences: Representing Prison in Twentieth-Century French Fiction","description":"A long list of canonical writers in Western literature have experienced incarceration and have subsequently written celebrated works about the imprisoned and the condemned. The French tradition is no exception: writers who produced noteworthy texts while incarcerated or who later wrote about their experiences in prison are found on the literary-historical landscape from the medieval era through the twentieth century. Prison writing by inmates, former guards, chaplains, teachers, and doctors is firmly established as part of the fabric of popular culture and has long attracted the attention of culture critics and scholars. Nevertheless, scant analysis exists of the prison novel--a literary genre that, as Andrew Sobanet argues in \u003ci\u003eJail Sentences\u003c\/i\u003e, uses fiction as a documentary tool. Its narrative peculiarities, which are the main subjects of Sobanet's study, include the use of autobiographical and testimonial techniques to critique the penitentiary system. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJail Sentences\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive study of the legacy of the Western tradition of prison writing in twentieth-century French literature. Although Sobanet focuses primarily on French writers--Victor Serge, Jean Genet, Albertine Sarrazin, and François Bon--his keen sense of literary dialogue pulls into the orbit of his study an international corpus of work, from Dostoyevsky to Malcolm X. \u003ci\u003eJail Sentences\u003c\/i\u003e arrives at a coherent definition of the genre, whose unique conventions stem from the innermost regions of our understanding of stories, truth, fiction, and belief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Sobanet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803213794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803213791\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/10\/2008 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2009","brand":"Andrew Sobanet","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48013788545279,"sku":"9780803213791","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_260ebd59-d298-47e6-9fee-31bf40d4d33d.jpg?v=1767744772","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jail-sentences-andrew-sobanet-9780803213791","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}