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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100140273050
ISBN-139780140273052
eBay Product ID (ePID)468171
Product Key Features
Book TitlePrison Writing in 20th-Century America
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), American / General, Literary
Publication Year1998
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction, Literary Collections
AuthorH. Bruce Franklin
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight9.7 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN97-042354
Dewey Edition21
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Grade ToUP
Dewey Decimal810.8/09206927
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Foreword by Tom Wicker Introduction From Plantation to Penitentiary Plantation Prison Autobiography of an Imprisoned Peon (1904) Songs of the Prison Plantation "Go Down Old Hannah" "Midnight Special" "Easy Rider" The Early Modern American Prison Jack London "'Pinched': A Prison Experience" and "The Pen: Long Days in a County Penitentiary" (1907) Donald Lowrie from My Life in Prison Agnes Smedley "Cell Mates" Kate Richards O'Hare from Crime and Criminals Jim Tully "A California Holiday" Ernest Booth "Ladies in Durance Vile" Chester Himes "To What Red Hell?" Nelson Algren "El Presidente de Méjico" (1947) Robert Lowell "Memories of West Street and Lepke" (1959)The Movement and the Prison Malcolm X from The Autobiography of Malcolm X George Jackson from Soledad Brother (1970) Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck) from The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim (1971) Mshaka (Willie Monroe) "Formula for Attica Repeats" (1974) Piri Thomas from Seven Long Times (1974) Jack Henry Abbott from In the Belly of the Beast (1981) Assata Shakur from Assata (1987)The Literary Renaissance Malcolm Braley from On the Yard (1967) Etheridge Knight "The Warden Said to Me the Other Day" (1968) "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane" (1968) For Freckle-Faced Gerald" (1968) Paul Mariah "Quarry/Rock: A Reality Poem in the Tradition of Genet" (1969) "Always We Watch Them" (1970) Shakedown and More" (1971) Norma Stafford "In Santa Cruz" (1972) "The Gone One" (1973) William Wantling from "Sestina to San Quentin" (1973) "Poetry" (1973) "Who's Bitter?" (1973) Michael Hogan "Spring" (1975) "Confessions of a Jailhouse Lawyer" (1975) Carolyn Baxter "Lower Court" (1979) "35 Years a Correctional Officer" (1979) "On Being Counted" (1979) Jimmy Santiago Baca "The New Warden" (1979) "The County Jail" (1979) "I Applied for the Board" (1982) Jackie Ruzas "Easy to Kill" (1975) "The Bus Ride" (1983) Edward Bunker from Little Boy Blue (1981) Nathan C. Heard from House of Slammers (1983) Charles Culhane "Of Cold Places" (1984) "Autumn Yard" (1985) "First Day of Hanukkah" (1986) Patricia McConnel "Sing Soft, Sing Loud" (1989) Kim Wozencraft from Notes from the Country Club (1993) Jerome Washington "Diamond Bob" (1994) "The Blues Merchant" (1994) "Nobody's Hoss" (1994) "Barracuda and Sheryl" (1994) "Shing-a-Ling and China" (1994) Kathy Boudin "Our Skirt" (1997) "The Call" (1997) Dannie Martin ("Red Hog") "AIDS: The View from a Prison Cell" (1986) "A Prescription for Torture" (1990) "A Mount Everest of Time" (1990) Mumia Abu-Jamal "B-Block Days and Nightmares" (1990) "Skeleton Bay" (1993) "Already Out of the Game" Jimmy Santiago Baca "Past Present" (1992)
SynopsisThe unique collection dramatises the history of the modern American prison and offers a harrowing vision of prison life in American today. Includes Mumia Abu Jamal, Nelson Algren, Edward Bunker, Nathan C Heard, Chester Himes, Jack London, Iceberg Slim, Malcolm X and more., "Harrowing in their frank detail and desperate tone, the selections in this anthology pack an emotional wallop...Should be required reading for anyone concerned about the violence in our society and the high rate of recidivism."-- Publishers Weekly . Includes work by: Jack London, Nelson Algren, Chester Himes, Jack Henry Abbott, Robert Lowell, Malcolm X, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Piri Thomas., The unique collection dramatises the history of,the modern American prison and offers a harrowing,vision of prison life in American today. Includes,Mumia Abu Jamal, Nelson Algren, Edward Bunker,Nathan C Heard, Chester Himes, Jack London,Iceberg Slim, Malcolm X and more.,.
LC Classification NumberPS508.P7P68 1998
