Prison Writing and the Literary World

<p>Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison writing<br>and writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of literary representation<br>and formal aesthetics the “value” or “values” of literature<br>textual censorship and circulation institutional networks and literary-critical<br>methodologies. It offers scholarly essays exploring prison writing<br>in relation to wartime internment political imprisonment resistance and<br>independence creation regimes of terror and personal narratives of development<br>and awakening that grapple with race class and gender. Cutting<br>across geospatial divides while drawing on nation- and region-specific expertise<br>it asks readers to connect the questions examples and challenges<br>arising from prison writing and writing about imprisonment within the<br>UK and the USA but also across continental Europe Stalinist Russia the<br>Americas Africa and the Middle East. It also includes critical reflection<br>pieces from authors editors educators and theatre practitioners with experience<br>of the fraught testing and potentially inspiring links between prison<br>and the literary world.</p>