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Book SynopsisBy analysing the works of specific prison writers but not being limited to a single locale or narrow time span, Fitting Sentences offers a significant historical and global overview of a unique genre in literature.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Opening Statements Part One: The Carceral Society *'They locked the door on my meditations': Thoreau, Society, and the Prison House of Identity *'Cast of Characters': Problems of Identity and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Part Two: Writing Wrongs *'To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law': The Paradox of the Individual in De Profundis * Positioning Discourse: Martin Luther King Jr's 'Letter from Birmingham City Jail' Part Three: Prisons, Privilege, and Complicity * Being Jane Warton: Lady Constance Lytton and the Disruption of Privilege * Frustrating Complicity in Breyten Breytenbach's The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist Closing Statements / Opening Arguments Notes Works Cited Index
