Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Learning in Prison

by Deborah Appleman

Book Overview

Words No Bars Can Hold provides a rare glimpse into literacy learning under the most dehumanizing conditions. Deborah Appleman chronicles her work teaching college- level classes at a high- security prison for men, most of whom are serving life sentences. Through narrative, poetry, memoir, and fiction, the students in Appleman's classes attempt to write themselves back into a society that has erased their lived histories.

The students' work,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393713679
• ISBN13: 9780393713671
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"