Abolition time : grammars of law, poetics of justice /

Abolition Time is an invitation to reenvision abolitionist justice through literary studies. Placing critical race theory, queer theory, critical prison studies and antiprison activism in conversation with an archive of Black Atlantic literatures of slavery, Jess A. Goldberg reveals how literary stu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Goldberg, Jesse A. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2024].
Subjects:	Literature > Black authors > History and criticism. Black people in literature. Social justice in literature. Antislavery movements in literature. Prison-industrial complex.

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Summary:	Abolition Time is an invitation to reenvision abolitionist justice through literary studies. Placing critical race theory, queer theory, critical prison studies and antiprison activism in conversation with an archive of Black Atlantic literatures of slavery, Jess A. Goldberg reveals how literary studies can help undo carceral epistemologies embedded in language and poetics.
Physical Description:	xiii, 270 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781517917883 1517917883 9781517917890 1517917891