Prison Writing of Latin America - Image 1

£99.54

Bloomsbury Prison Writing of Latin America

Name: Prison Writing of Latin America
Brand: Bloomsbury
Price: 91.48 GBP
Availability: InStock

Literary Theory & Movements

Price History & Forecast

Last 35 days • 35 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 35 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £99 (19 days, 54.3%)

Price range: £91 - £99

Price levels: 2 different prices over 35 days

Description

Product Description What happens inside Latin American prisons? How does the social organisation of prisoners relate to the political structures beyond the walls? Is it possible to resist corrupt penal regimes? In Prison Writing of Latin America, Joey Whitfield turns to those best placed to answer these questions: people who have been imprisoned themselves. Drawing on a century of material produced by Latin American prisoners from Mexico, Cuba, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, Whitfield weaves readings of novels, memoirs and testimonial texts with social and political analysis. Rather than distinguishing between dictatorial and democratic periods of government, he shows that from the point of view of the prisoner, all states are authoritarian in nature. In the face of oppression, however, prisoners both political and criminal have found ways not only to resist but also to create alternative communities both real and imagined, sometimes in collaboration with each other. Review Highly original in terms of its subject matter and displaying evidence of extensive research, Prison Writing of Latin America engages thoughtfully and intelligently with primary and secondary materials in order to develop a substantial contribution to our understanding of prison culture and Latin-American culture. The book offers both a theoretical reflection around notions of penality and a specific study of literary and artistic representations of prison culture in a modern Latin-American context. It is very effective on both levels. It includes a nuanced and highly reflective internal debate about ways of thinking about prison, punishment, resistance and the state. The corpus is varied and helps unfold a broad-ranging and complex set of considerations about state punishment that is sensitive to ambiguity and contradiction while maintaining a kind of committed ethical thrust. An extremely valuable book.Philip Swanson, Hughes Professor of Spanish, University of Sheffield, UKWith this poignant book, Whitfield opens the gate to Latin-American prison writers for an English-speaking audience. Their creative writings are a testimony of persistent penal violence that reinforces class, race and gender hierarchies. A book that must be read by anyone concerned with criticism of the Penal State and alternative paths toward social justice in the continent.R. Aída Hernández Castillo, Professor and Senior Researcher, Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico, and author of Multiple InJustices: Indigenous Women, Law and Political Struggle (2016) About the Author Joey Whitfield is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.

Product Specifications

Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 150133462X
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 26 July 2018
Listed Since: 04 October 2017

Barcode

No barcode data available

Bloomsbury Prison Writing of Latin America

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Carceral Communities in Latin America: Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century (Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology)

Routledge Prison Writing and the Literary World - Academic Book

Routledge Transnational Penal Cultures - Crime and Justice Book

Prisons, Inmates and Governance in Latin America (Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology)

Resist the Punitive State: Grassroots Struggles Across Welfare, Housing, Education and Prisons

Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration: The Revival of the Prison (New Advances in Crime and Social Harm)

Contesting Carceral Logic: Towards Abolitionist Futures (Routledge Studies in Penal Abolition and Transformative Justice)

Contesting Carceral Logic: Towards Abolitionist Futures (Routledge Studies in Penal Abolition and Transformative Justice)

Civil Society and the State in Left-Led Latin America: Challenges and Limitations to Democratization

Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Routledge Inscribed Identities: Life Writing Book

The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today (Routledge Critical Development Studies)

Cicatrices: Central American Fiction in the 21st Century

The Idea of Latin America (Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos)

Routledge - The Political Economy of Punishment Today Book

Routledge - Justice and Penal Reform: Re-shaping the Penal Landscape

Punishment and Prisons: Power and the Carceral State

Punishment and Prisons: Power and the Carceral State

From Gulag to Guantanamo: Political, Social and Economic Evolutions of Mass Incarceration

Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform

Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America

Routledge - Youth Justice and Penality in Comparative Context

The Impact of Covid-19 on Prison Conditions and Penal Policy (Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice)

Resisting Carceral Violence: Women's Imprisonment and the Politics of Abolition (Critical Criminological Perspectives)