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

Introduction: A Wide and Worlded Vision of Prison Writing by Claire Westall 　 Problems and Silences Chapter 1 The Credibility of Elves: Narrative Exclusion and Prison Writing by Sarah Colvin 　 PoWs and Purges Chapter 2 German Military Internees Writing the First World War: Gender, Irony and Humour in the Camp Newspaper Stobsiade by Anne Schwan Chapter 3 The Prison Writings of Nikolai Bukharin by Howard Caygill 　 Nation (Re)Making in Prison Spaces Chapter 4 Prison Writing and the Algerian War of Independence by Emilie Morin Chapter 5 Writing from Robben Island: National Identity and the Apartheid Prison in South Africa by Daniel Roux Chapter 6 Writing South Africa’s Prisons into History by Jonny Steinberg 　 Censorship, Advocacy and Text Creation Chapter 7 "His Enemy’s Language": African American Prison Life Writing, the Literary Forms of Institutional Power and George Jackson’s Soledad Brother by Simon Rolston Chapter 8 PEN and the Writer as Prisoner by Michelle Kelly Chapter 9 Scribo Ergo Sum: Creating and Publishing Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Larry Siems 　 From Life to Fiction Chapter 10 Writing Against the Regime: Metafiction in the Arabic Prison Novel by R. Shareah Taleghani Chapter 11 Anarcha-feminism, Prison and Utopia: the abolitionist politics of Alison Spedding’s De cuando en cuando Saturnina (2004) and La segunda vez como farsa (2008) by Joey Whitfield 　 Women, Theatre and Clean Break Chapter 13 Something About Us: Clean Break’s Theatre of Necessity by Caoimhe McAvinchey Chapter 13 Unlocking Potential: The role of theatre writing in prisons in the work of Clean Break by Anna Herrmann, Deborah Bruce and Clare Barstow 　 Literary Workshops Chapter 14 Literary Studies and the Teaching of Prison Texts by Claire Westall Chapter 15 ‘Folsom Prison Writing Workshop’ by Roger Robinson