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Women, Writing, and Prison
Activists, Scholars, and Writers Speak Out
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2014
Summary
This collection includes a kaleidoscope of voices and perspectives from prisoners, former prisoners, scholars, and activists to examine the extraordinarily invisible and closed system of incarceration that characterizes the massive U.S. prison industry. The book explores in multiple ways, the role of writing in carceral settings, including material realities, ethics, and social justice. It is a book about the power of writing as well as its limits. It is a book that celebrates and critiques, challenges, and reveals. It is a book that, like the writing of incarcerated women, repays careful reading.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-0822-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-0824-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
280
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Series Overview: About the It’s Easy to W.R.I.T.E. Expressive Writing Series No access
It’s Easy to W.R.I.T.E. No access
Foreword No access
Preface No access
Introduction: Not Much Silence Here No access Pages 1 - 18
Where We Are From No access Pages 19 - 20
1 My Words Are Brain and Bone Marrow No access
2 From Nonna’s Table to Book Signings No access
3 “This Ain’t No Holiday Inn, Griffin” No access
4 A Symphony of Medicine No access
5 The Girl behind the Smile No access
6 Writing to Survive the Madness No access
7 My Voice through a Deadbolt Door No access
8 Rolling with the Punches No access
9 Good Intentions Aside No access
10 Jumble of Thoughts No access
11 Incorporeal Transformations No access
12 Writing Exchanges No access
13 Mothers and Daughters No access
14 As Others Stand By and Ask Questions No access
15 Poetry, Audience, and Leaving Prison No access
16 “. . . to speak in one’s own voice” No access
17 Writing is My Way of Sledgehammering these Walls No access
18 She Bore the Lyrical Name of Velmarine Szabo No access
19 “You Just Threatened My Life” No access
20 Out at the Swamp and Back No access
21 I am Antarctica No access
22 No Stopping Them No access
23 “Dear Shelly . . .” No access
24 All with the Stroke of a Pen No access
25 The Prisoner’s Lament No access
Hope Is There No access Pages 239 - 240
Afterword: Speaking Out for Social Justice No access Pages 241 - 252
About the Authors No access Pages 253 - 258
Appendix: Resources for Facilitating Prison Writing Workshops No access Pages 259 - 264
