Prison Writing of Latin America
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2018
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-3462-7 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-3462-7 (ISBN)
What happens inside Latin American prisons? How does the social organisation of prisoners relate to the political structures beyond the walls? Is it possible to resist corrupt penal regimes? In Prison Writing of Latin America, Joey Whitfield turns to those best placed to answer these questions: people who have been imprisoned themselves.
Drawing on a century of material produced by Latin American prisoners from Mexico, Cuba, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, Whitfield weaves readings of novels, memoirs and testimonial texts with social and political analysis. Rather than distinguishing between dictatorial and democratic periods of government, he shows that from the point of view of the prisoner, all states are authoritarian in nature. In the face of oppression, however, prisoners both ‘political’ and ‘criminal’ have found ways not only to resist but also to create alternative communities both real and imagined, sometimes in collaboration with each other.
Drawing on a century of material produced by Latin American prisoners from Mexico, Cuba, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, Whitfield weaves readings of novels, memoirs and testimonial texts with social and political analysis. Rather than distinguishing between dictatorial and democratic periods of government, he shows that from the point of view of the prisoner, all states are authoritarian in nature. In the face of oppression, however, prisoners both ‘political’ and ‘criminal’ have found ways not only to resist but also to create alternative communities both real and imagined, sometimes in collaboration with each other.
Joey Whitfield is Lecturer in Latin American and Hispanic Studies at Cardiff University, UK.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Translations
Introduction
1. The Punitive and the Lettered City: The Politics of Prison Writing
2. ‘We are the men without women’: Hegemonic Masculinity and the Hegemony of the Prison
3. Heterotopia, Utopia, Necrotopia: Sovereignty and Struggle in the Peruvian Prison
4. Prison Writing and The War on Drugs
Beyond the Prison
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.09.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 2 b/w illustrations |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 463 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-3462-X / 150133462X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-3462-7 / 9781501334627 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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