{"product_id":"prison-life-writing-conversion-and-the-literary-roots-of-the-u-s-prison-system-paperback-softback-9781771125178","title":"Prison Life Writing; Conversion and the Literary Roots of the U.S. Prison System (Paperback \/ softback) 9781771125178","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePrison Life Writing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConversion and the Literary Roots of the U.S. Prison System\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSimon Rolston (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781771125178\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 June 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e301 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.1 x 13.2 x 2 cm, 0.3 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrison Life Writing\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full-length study of one of the most controversial genres in American literature. By exploring the complicated relationship between life writing and institutional power, this book reveals the overlooked aesthetic innovations of incarcerated people and the surprising literary roots of the U.S. prison system. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimon Rolston observes that the autobiographical work of incarcerated people is based on a conversion narrative, a story arc that underpins the concept of prison rehabilitation and that sometimes serves the interests of the prison system, rather than those on the inside. Yet many imprisoned people rework the conversion narrative the way they repurpose other objects in prison. Like a radio motor retooled into a tattoo gun, the conversion narrative has been redefined by some authors for subversive purposes, including questioning the ostensible emancipatory role of prison writing, critiquing white supremacy, and broadly reimagining autobiographical discourse.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn interdisciplinary work that brings life writing scholarship into conversation with prison studies and law and literature studies, \u003ci\u003ePrison Life Writing\u003c\/i\u003e theorizes how life writing works in prison, explains literature’s complicated entanglements with institutional power, and demonstrates the political and aesthetic innovations of one of America’s most fascinating literary genres. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAutobiography and the Problem with Resistance: The Conversion Narrative in Prison Discourse and U.S. Prison Life Writing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Conversion and the Story of the U.S. Prison\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. The Treatment Era: African American Prison Life Writing and the Prison Conversion Narrative in George Jackson'\u003cbr\u003es Soledad Brother and James Carr'\u003cbr\u003es Bad\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. From the Treatment Era to the Monster Factory: Carl Panzram and Jack Henry Abbott'\u003cbr\u003es Anticonversion Narratives and the Dawn of Mass Incarceration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Life Writing in the Contemporary Carceral State: Writing My Wrongs, A Place to Stand, and the \"Making of a Better Human Being\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. \"Love is Contraband in Hell\": Women'\u003cbr\u003es Prisons, Life Writing, and Discourses of Sexuality in Assata and An American Radical\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCONCLUSION. \"These Women Like Myself\": Becoming Ms. Burton and Rereading Prison Life Writing in a Time of Crisis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52744285290776,"sku":"9781771125178","price":25.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/prison-life-writing-conversion-and-the-literary-roots-of-the-u-s-prison-system-paperback-softback-9781771125178","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}