From Slave Ship To Supermax: Mass Incarceration, Prisoner Abuse, And The New Neo-Slave Novel

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

• | Author: Patrick Elliot Alexander
• | Publisher: Temple University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 30, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 266 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 143991415X
• | ISBN-13: 9781439914151