From the Plantation to the Prison: African-American Confinement Literature

ISBN-13: 9780881460902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 194 str.

Tara T. Green

Opis

Confinement appropriately describes the status of African Americans who have been incarcerated. Spaces of confinement include?but are not limited to? plantations, Jim Crow societies, and prisons. Contributors examine the related experiences of Malcolm X, Bigger Thomas of Native Son, Angela Davis, and other people of African descent.