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From slave ship to Supermax : mass incarceration, prisoner abuse, and the new neo-slave novel / Patrick Elliot Alexander.

Author/creator Alexander, Patrick Elliot, 1983-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Temple University Press, 2017.
Description1 online resource.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Contents Introduction: antipanoptic expressivity and the new neo-slave novel -- Talking in George Jackson's shadow: neoslavery, police intimidation, and imprisoned intellectualism in Baldwin's If Beale Street could talk -- Middle passage reinstated: whispers from the women's prison in Morrison's Beloved -- "Didn't I say this was worse than prison?": the slave ship-Supermax relation in Johnson's Middle passage -- "Tell them I'm a man": slavery's vestiges and imprisoned radical intellectualism in Gaines's A lesson before dying -- Epilogue: the prison classroom and the neo-abolitionist novel.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Issued in other formPrint version: Alexander, Patrick Elliot, 1983- author. From slave ship to Supermax Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2017 9781439914144
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017045777
ISBN9781439914168 (e-book)

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