Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Guide by Murphet, Julian

Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Guide (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781399513968)

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Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Guide by Murphet, Julian

Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Guide

$110.00
Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Guide by Murphet, Julian

Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Guide

$110.00
Format: Hardcover
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Tracking the evolutionary arc of prison writing across the twentieth century in an international and comparative framework, this study proposes an integrated account of the major shifts and movements in this relatively neglected genre of autobiography. Dwelling on works--memoirs, novellas, poems--by actual detainees, the book offers a close stylistic analysis of 12 important texts to show how prison writing moved away from the confessional and self-scrutinizing modes of an earlier tradition, to espouse openly political sentiments and solidarities. Looking at works by Oscar Wilde, Rosa Luxemburg, Ezra Pound, Primo Levi, Bobby Sands, Angela Davis, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and Behrouz Boochani (among others), the book shows how themes such as the annihilation of experience, dehumanization, sensory deprivation, brutality, and numbing routine are woven into distinctive textual artefacts that give evidence of an abiding human resilience in the face of raw state power.

Author: Julian Murphet
ISBN-10: 1399513966
ISBN-13: 9781399513968
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2023
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
By Julian Murphet
By Julian Murphet
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Julian Murphet is Jury Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Adelaide. He is the author, previously, of Literature and Race in Los Angeles (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Multimedia Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Faulkner's Media Romance (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Todd Solondz (Northern Illinois University Press, 2019), and of the forthcoming Modern Character: 1888-1905 (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Twentieth-Century Prison Writing: A Literary Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).

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