Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com
Image from Google Jackets

Prison writing of Latin America / Joey Whitfield

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.Description: viii, 208 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781501361708
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 860.99206 WHI
Contents:
INTRODUCTION 1.The punitive and the lettered city: the politics of prison writing -- 2. "We are the men without women": hegemonic masculinity and the hegemony of the prison -- 3. Heterotopia, utopia, necrotopia: sovereignty and struggle in the Peruvian prison -- 4. Prison writing and the war on drugs -- Beyond the prison. Bibliography Index
Summary: 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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
General Books General Books CUTN Central Library Languages Non-fiction 860.99206 WHI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 43400

INTRODUCTION
1.The punitive and the lettered city: the politics of prison writing --
2. "We are the men without women": hegemonic masculinity and the hegemony of the prison --
3. Heterotopia, utopia, necrotopia: sovereignty and struggle in the Peruvian prison --
4. Prison writing and the war on drugs --
Beyond the prison. Bibliography Index

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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha