Prison writing of Latin America /
Joey Whitfield.
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
- viii, 208 pages ; 24 cm.
- 821.134(8).09 (NLA) .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-199) and index.
The punitive and the lettered city: the politics of prison writing -- "We are the men without women": hegemonic masculinity and the hegemony of the prison -- Heterotopia, utopia, necrotopia: sovereignty and struggle in the Peruvian prison -- Prison writing and the war on drugs -- Beyond the prison.
Prisoners' writings, Latin American--History and criticism Latin American literature--History and criticism--20th century Prisoners--Intellectual life--Latin America Prisons in literature