Writing South Africa’s Prisons into History
Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 12 November, 2020 - 18:01
Publication Type:
Book ChapterSource:
Prison writing and the literary world: imprisonment, institutionality and questions of literary practice, Routledge, New York (2020)ISBN:
978-0-367-61623-6Keywords:
History and criticism, Intellectual life, Prisoners, Prisoners as authors, Prisoners' writingsAbstract:
"Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison writing and writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of literary representation and formal aesthetics, the "value" or "values" of literature, textual censorship and circulation, institutional networks, and literary-critical methodologies"–