Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Wide and Worlded Vision of Prison Writing
Problems and Silences
	1 The Credibility of Elves?: Narrative Exclusion and Prison Writing
PoWs and Purges
	2 German Military Internees Writing the First World War: Gender, Irony and Humour in the Camp Newspaper Stobsiade
	3 The Prison Writings of Nikolai Bukharin
Prison Spaces and Nation (Re)Making
	4 Prison Writing and the Algerian War of Independence
	5 Writing from Robben Island: National Identity and the Apartheid Prison in South Africa
	6 Writing South Africa’s Prisons into History
Censorship, Advocacy and Text Creation
	7 “His Enemy’s Language”: African American Prison Life Writing, the Literary Forms of Institutional Power and George Jackson’s Soledad Brother
	8 PEN and the Writer as Prisoner
	9 Scribo Ergo Sum: Creating and Publishing Guantánamo Diary
From Life to Fiction
	10 Writing Against the Regime: Metafiction in the Arabic Prison Novel
	11 Anarcha-Feminism, Prison and Utopia: The Abolitionist Politics of Alison Spedding’s De cuando en cuando Saturnina and La segunda vez como farsa
Women, Theatre and Clean Break
	12 Something About Us: Clean Break’s Theatre of Necessity
	13 Unlocking Potential: The Role of Theatre Writing in Prisons in the Work of Clean Break
Literary Workshops
	14 Literary Studies and the Teaching of Prison Texts
	15 Folsom Prison Writing Workshop
Index