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By 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 Contents
Acknowledgments 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

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      Publisher University of Toronto Press
      Published 31 December 2005
      ISBN-13 9780802038333
      978-0802038333
      ISBN-10 0802038336
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      By 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 Contents
      Acknowledgments 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

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