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Book SynopsisTrade Review“A uniquely valuable intervention. Those of us--and I would say that is the majority of us who live our lives ‘in freedom’--are importuned by the book’s address, to wake up, to care, because what we perceive as our ‘freedom’ made available, so we think, as a consequence of living in the crucible of liberal ideals and beliefs--is inextricably bound up with the logics of incarceration.”--Fawzia Afzal-Khan, author of
Siren Song: Understanding Pakistan Through its Women SingersTable of ContentsForeword Demita Frazier
Acknowledgments
Introduction Shreerekha Pillai
Part One: Carceral Narratives and Fictions
Poems: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, “Pantoum for a Black Man on a Greyhound Bus” and “Lost Letter #27: John Peters, Boston-Gaol to Phillis Wheatley Peters, Boston, December 3, 1784″
1. Carceral Trauma at the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Maternity
Cassandra D. Little
2. Prisons and Politics: Conceptualizing Prison Memoirs
Shailza Sharma
3. Seeing Orange: Mediatizing the Prison Empire
Shreerekha Pillai
4. Emptied Chairs and Faceless Inmates: A Critical Analysis of the Texas Prison Museum
Beth Matusoff Merfish
Poems: Ravi Shankar, “Against Innocence” and “Sunday School” The Stories that will not be Confined
Poems: Solmaz Sharif, “Reaching Guantánamo”
Part Two: Carceral Bodies and Systems
Poem: Jeremy Eugene, “Space”
5. These Stories Will Not Be Confined
Joanna Eleftheriou
6. Cornered: Day Laborers, Criminalization and Rituals of Democracy in Texas
Francisco Argüelles Paz y Puente, aka Pancho
7. Resisting Criminalization: Principles, Practicalities, and Possibilities of Alternative Justices Beyond the State
Autumn Elizabeth, Zarinah Agnew, D Coulombe
8. Going Carceral? Analyzing Written and Visual Representations of Prison Yoga Programs
Tria Blu Wakpa and Jennifer Musial
9. Vacant Refuge, Unfinished Resettlement: Gendered Nativism and the Experience of Ambivalence among Displaced Syrian Iraqi and Women and Children in Houston, Texas
Maria F. Curtis
10. Gendered Punishment and Social Control: Silenced Memories of Women in Wartime Peru
Marta Romero-Delgado
11. Bad Girls of Pindra Tod
Alka Kurian
Poem: Javier Zamora, “Citizenship”
Contributors
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