Fitting Sentences: Identity in Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Prison Narratives

by Jason Haslam

Fitting Sentences is an analysis of writings by prisoners from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in North America, South Africa, and Europe. Jason Haslam examines the ways in which these writers reconfigure subjectivity and its relation to social power structures, especially the prison structure itself, while also detailing the relationship between prison and slave narratives. Specifically, Haslam reads texts by Henry David Thoreau, Harriet...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802038336
• ISBN13: 9780802038333
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher