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Prison literature in America : the victim as criminal and artist
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- Creator
- H. Bruce Franklin
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Expanded edition
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1989
- Physical Details
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- xxxii, 352 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0195053583, 9780195053586
- OCLC
- ocm18442326
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-341) and index.
- Part I: The victim as criminal and artist in America -- The first literary genre of the United States: the slave narrative -- The worker as criminal and artist: Herman Melville -- Part II: History -- Plantation to penitentiary: songs of slavery, peonage, and prison: A. Songs of slavery B. Songs of an imprisoned people -- A history of literature by convicts in America -- Part III: The present -- Two novelists of the American prison A. Malcolm Braly B. Chester Himes -- From Malcolm X to Attica and beyond: contemporary American prison literature
Subjects
- Prisoners' writings, American -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
- Criminals' writings, American -- History and criticism.
- Enslaved persons' writings, American -- History and criticism.
- Prisoners -- United States -- Intellectual life.
- Enslaved persons -- United States -- Intellectual life.
- African Americans in literature.
- Slavery in literature.
- Prisons in literature.
- Victims in literature.
- Crime in literature.
- Canon (Literature)