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LEADER: 01922cam a2200349 a 4500
001 2008006227
003 DLC
005 20090901085620.0
008 080212s2008 gau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008006227
020 $a9780881460902 (hbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0881460907 (hbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn154804867
035 $a(OCoLC)154804867
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS153.N5$bF76 2008
082 00 $a810.9/3556$222
245 00 $aFrom the plantation to the prison :$bAfrican-American confinement literature /$cedited by Tara T. Green.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aMacon, Ga. :$bMercer University Press,$cc2008.
300 $a182 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aVoices of the African diaspora
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPart I: Identifying the boundaries of confinement -- Writing from no man's land: the Black man's quest for freedom from behind the walls / by Carol E. Henderson -- Lessons before dying: the contemporary confined character-in-process / by Dana A. Williams -- Mind-blown: possibility and trauma in Native son / by Terry Bozeman -- Part II: Confined spaces and places -- Ernest J. Gaines's A lesson before dying: freedom in confined spaces / by Katherine Daley and Carolyn M. Jones -- Doing time in/as "The monster": abject identity in African-American prison literature / by Kimberly Drake -- Faith's fickle covenant: African-American captivity narratives from the Vietnam War / by Jeff Loeb.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in literature.
650 0 $aImprisonment in literature.
650 0 $aPrisoners in literature.
700 1 $aGreen, Tara T.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0810/2008006227.html