{"product_id":"critical-prison-theory-and-literature-9781032612263","title":"Critical Prison Theory and Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a concrete classroom, two hands meet in a welcome handshake. One belongs to a professor who has never seen the inside of a cell, the other to a graffiti artist whose decade behind bars taught him to read power like fault lines in stone. Eleven years later, that handshake has transformed into\u003ci\u003e Critical Prison Theory and Literature: Palimpsest.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors put themselves, stories, and theory about prison in conversation, following five metaphors through mass incarceration: retribution as code, isolation as cell, trauma as wound, creativity as graffiti tag, restorative justice as kitchen table. Pairing texts across centuriesâ\u003cem\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/em\u003e with Batman comics, \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e with \u003cem\u003eThe House on Mango Street\u003c\/em\u003eâthis book represents their part of that larger conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515562254679,"sku":"9781032612263","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-prison-theory-and-literature-9781032612263","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}