The prison and the American imagination [electronic resource] / Caleb Smith.

How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the question is particularly urgent. In this timely, provocative study, Cale...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author:	Smith, Caleb, 1977- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Series:	Yale studies in English.
Subjects:	American literature > History and criticism. Imprisonment in literature. Prisoners > United States > Intellectual life. Prisons in literature. American literature. Prisoners > Intellectual life. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.