From the plantation to the prison : African-American confinement literature /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Green, Tara T.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, [2008]
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Voices of the African diaspora.
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. African Americans > Intellectual life. African Americans in literature. Imprisonment in literature. Prisoners in literature.

Table of Contents:

Part I: Identifying the boundaries of confinement
Writing from no man's land: the Black man's quest for freedom from behind the walls / by Carol E. Henderson
Lessons before dying: the contemporary confined character-in-process / by Dana A. Williams
Mind-blown: possibility and trauma in Native son / by Terry Bozeman
Part II: Confined spaces and places
Ernest J. Gaines's A lesson before dying: freedom in confined spaces / by Katherine Daley and Carolyn M. Jones
Doing time in/as "The monster": abject identity in African-American prison literature / by Kimberly Drake
Faith's fickle covenant: African-American captivity narratives from the Vietnam War / by Jeff Loeb.