Prison writing of Latin America
- Submitting institution
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Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 96967485
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781501334627
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
- Yes
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book (pp.216) is the first substantial comparative study of prison writing from Latin America. It covers a broad period from the early 20th to the early 21st Centuries and is the outcome of a 7-year investigation involving author interviews, archival work, prisons visits, and the sourcing of rare texts. Methodologically innovative in its broad corpus of canonical and understudied writers, it is also the first to use an abolitionist framework. It shows the significance of prison writing for issues such as the relationship between writing and the state, racism, sexuality, gender, political imprisonment, utopian politics and organised crime.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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