{"product_id":"critical-storytelling-from-behind-invisible-bars-undergraduates-and-inmates-write-their-way-out-9789004441644","title":"Critical Storytelling from behind Invisible Bars: Undergraduates and Inmates Write Their Way Out","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCritical stories are narratives that recount the writer’s experiences, situating those experiences in broader cultural contexts. In this volume of Critical Storytelling, marginalized, excluded, and oppressed peoples share insights from their liminality to help readers learn from their perspectives on living from behind invisible bars. Female inmates at Decatur’s Correctional Center and the undergraduate Millikin University students who worked with them come together to give voice to their specific histories of living from behind invisibile bars and pose important questions to the reader about inciting change for the future. Specifically, the voices in this volume seek to expose, analyze, and challenge deeply-entrenched narratives and characterizations of incarcerated women, whose histories are often marked by sexual abuse, domestic violence, poverty, PTSD, a lack of education, housing insecurity, mental illness, and substance addiction. These silenced female inmate voices need to be heard and contextualized within the larger metanarrative of prison literature. Through telling critical stories, these writers attempt to: sustain recovery from trauma, make positive changes and informed decisions, create a real sense of empowerment, strengthen their capacity to exercise personal agency, and inspire audiences to create change far outside the reaches of physical and metaphorical bars.    Contributors are: Anonymous, Soren Belle, Megan Batty, Dwight G. Brown, Jr., Sandra Brown, Kathryn Coffey, Kelly Cunningham, Paiten Hamilton, Kathlyn J. Housh, Rebekah Icenesse, Kala Keller, Jelisa Lovette, Bric Martin, Amanda Minetti, Laura Nearing, Angie Oaks, Claire Prendergast, Cara Quiett, J. M. Spence, Noah Villarreal and Alisha Walker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Notes on Contributors  Prologue   Alex V. Miller    1 A Prisoner’s Melody   Sandra Brown, Jelissa Lovette and Alisha Walker  2 Barcode   Sandra Brown  3 Caged   Jelissa Lovette  4 The Forbidden \u0026amp; the Prohibited   Soren Belle  5 Truth or Dare   Sandra Brown  6 The People I Met When the Sky Went Dark   Bric Martin  7 The Great Wall of Insanity   J. M. Spence  8 State of Mind   Jelissa Lovette  9 The Call   Sandra Brown  10 Pivotal Times   Angie Oakes  11 A Daughter’s Sorrow   Sandra Brown  12 Talking It out from the Inside   Cara Quiett  13 Mother-Less Child   Jelissa Lovette  14 Not Waving, Not Drowning   Sandra Brown  15 Isaac   Claire Prendergast  16 Prison   Angie Oaks  17 Love Find Me   Jelissa Lovette  18 Little Girl Lost   Angie Oakes  19 Everlasting Kiss   Jelissa Lovette  20 Backburner Bitch   Anonymous  21 Love Alive   Kala Keller  22 My Dragonfly   Laura Neering  23 Puzzle Pieces in My Eyes   Rebekah M. Icenesse  24 Piece of Me   Jelissa Lovette  25 Nothing New under the Sun   Sandra Brown  26 Living a Life with Invisible Bars   Kathlyn J. Housh  27 Where Would I Be   Jelissa Lovette  28 My Odyssey   Sandra Brown  29 What Makes Straight so Great?   Dwight G. Brown, Jr.  30 Nature’s Sanctuary   Angie Oakes  31 Nature’s Pride and Promise   Cara Quiett  32 Finding Stability in Motion   Megan Batty  33 Queen of Soul   Jelisa Lovette  34 Melodies \u0026amp; Recipes   Cara Quiett  35 Unanswered Questions   Paiten Hamilton  36 Gregory’s Gift   Sandra Brown  37 Sentimental Syrup   Cara Quiett  38 Perfection: A History of Me \u0026amp; My Multi-Colored Elephants   Kathryn A. Coffey  39 Final Thoughts   Sandra Brown  40 Stopping the Cycle: My Journey with Generational Body Image   Kelly Cunningham  41 My Four Opportunities to Grow Up   Noah Villarreal  42 My Last Bow   Amanda Minetti  43 The Eulogy   Sandra Brown  44 Yoga Me Free   Cara Quiett  45 Metamorphosis   Sandra Brown    Epilogue   Carmella J. Braniger, Rebekah M. Icenesse, Kathryn A. Coffey and Alex V. Miller","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210809762135,"sku":"9789004441644","price":36.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-storytelling-from-behind-invisible-bars-undergraduates-and-inmates-write-their-way-out-9789004441644","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}