...Caleb Smith Duke University Press 2007 Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime . By Dylan Rodriguez. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. 322 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. Fitting Sentences: Identity in Nineteenth...

...Michael Hames-García © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film . By Peter Caster. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2008. xx, 279 pp. $44.95. From the Plantation to the Prison: African American...

...E. Shaskan Bumas Duke University Press 2001 E. Shaskan Fictions of the Panopticon: Bumas Prison, Utopia, and the Out-Penitent in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne The great utopian writers from Plato through Thomas More explained...

.... Michael’s College Doing Time: Twenty-Five Years of Prison Writing. Ed. Bell Gale Chevigny. New York: Arcade Publishing. 1999. xxxii, 349 pp. $27.95. Remember when there wasn’t any literature by American slaves...

... highlight the U.S. “spatial coloniality” that is often obscured by familiar “promised land” narratives of immigration (29). Lauren Coats and Laura Jones, Louisiana State University DOI 10.1215/00029831-1339944 The Prison and the American Imagination. By Caleb Smith. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press...

...Thomas Alan Dichter Abstract First drafted during the author’s imprisonment in the 1930s, Chester Himes’s autobiographical prison novel, Yesterday Will Make You Cry , was originally published in expurgated form as Cast the First Stone in 1953. This essay situates both versions in relation...

...Megan Sweeney 2005 Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice . By Michael Hames-García. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2004. lii, 352 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95; Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism, and Complicity in U.S. Literary...

...Jean-Thomas Tremblay Ugly Differences: Queer Female Sexuality in the Underground . By Yetta Howard . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2018 . ix, 193 pp. Cloth, $99.00 ; paper, $28.00 ; e-book, $19.95 . Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State . By Stephen...

... of the electric chair at Sing Sing prison alongside James Weldon Johnson's 1912 novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man , the essay argues that these texts invite us to recast early twentieth-century black resistance in electrical terms, terms that expose racial violence as a function of technological...

... for understanding slavery and its carceral afterlives. This question becomes particularly pressing when we consider that today’s prison-industrial complex, like the American slaveholder of the past, extracts profits by strategically exploiting—rather than denying—the lucrative humanity of its captive black...

..., is the specter which outlines the existence of man in the modern worldMan in prison is the virtual image of the bourgeois type which he still has to become in reality.—Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment I...

...” narratives of immigration (29). Lauren Coats and Laura Jones, Louisiana State University DOI 10.1215/00029831-1339944 The Prison and the American Imagination. By Caleb Smith. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2009. x, 258 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $25.00. Criminal Intimacy: Prison...

... highlight the U.S. “spatial coloniality” that is often obscured by familiar “promised land” narratives of immigration (29). Lauren Coats and Laura Jones, Louisiana State University DOI 10.1215/00029831-1339944 The Prison and the American Imagination. By Caleb Smith. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press...

... highlight the U.S. “spatial coloniality” that is often obscured by familiar “promised land” narratives of immigration (29). Lauren Coats and Laura Jones, Louisiana State University DOI 10.1215/00029831-1339944 The Prison and the American Imagination. By Caleb Smith. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press...

... highlight the U.S. “spatial coloniality” that is often obscured by familiar “promised land” narratives of immigration (29). Lauren Coats and Laura Jones, Louisiana State University DOI 10.1215/00029831-1339944 The Prison and the American Imagination. By Caleb Smith. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press...

... highlight the U.S. “spatial coloniality” that is often obscured by familiar “promised land” narratives of immigration (29). Lauren Coats and Laura Jones, Louisiana State University DOI 10.1215/00029831-1339944 The Prison and the American Imagination. By Caleb Smith. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press...

... highlight the U.S. “spatial coloniality” that is often obscured by familiar “promised land” narratives of immigration (29). Lauren Coats and Laura Jones, Louisiana State University DOI 10.1215/00029831-1339944 The Prison and the American Imagination. By Caleb Smith. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press...

... highlight the U.S. “spatial coloniality” that is often obscured by familiar “promised land” narratives of immigration (29). Lauren Coats and Laura Jones, Louisiana State University DOI 10.1215/00029831-1339944 The Prison and the American Imagination. By Caleb Smith. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press...

... Through a popular merger of documentary, star power, and sen- timental address, The Exonerated provokes, through firsthand testi- mony, sympathy for former death-row prisoners. The hallmark signs of sentimentality are abundant: human connectedness, shared pain, broken ties, compassion...