Prison Writing and the Literary World : Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice
- Submitting institution
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University of York
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 66005732
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780367616236
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2020
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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
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This edited collection tackles the often under-researched area of prison writing / prison literature. The editors devised the project in consultation with the publisher specifically for Routledge’s Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature series. All chapters are original contributions, commissioned by the editors, and written specifically for the book. The writers in the collection were encouraged to explore prison writing in relation to wartime internment, political imprisonment, resistance and independence creation, regimes of terror, and personal narratives of development and awakening. Cutting across geospatial divides while drawing on nation- and region-specific expertise, the essays ask readers to connect the questions, examples and challenges arising from prison writing and writing about imprisonment within the UK and the USA, but also across continental Europe, Stalinist Russia, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East. The book also includes critical reflection pieces from authors, editors, educators and theatre practitioners with experience of the links between prison and the literary world. Westall commissioned Roger Robinson to create a poem reflecting on his visit to Folsom Prison and this closes the collection. Westall was the lead editor for the chapter submission and editing process, as well as for the review of the manuscript proofs. She is the sole author of the 8000 word opening chapter, which draws together new and existing work on prison writing and brings to this area new insights from debates about World Literature and the world-literary system. She also provides a research and pedagogically informed chapter of 8000 words, which specifically analyses Alan Sillitoe’s Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner and the writing of Erwin James.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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