Soledad Brother
Title | Soledad Brother PDF eBook |
Author | George Jackson |
Publisher | Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | 351 |
Release | 1994-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1613742894 |
A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, "Soledad Brother" is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled black men in America's prisons in the 1960s. But even removed from the social and political firestorms of the 1960s, Jackson's story still resonates for its portrait of a man taking a stand even while locked down.
Blood in My Eye
Title | Blood in My Eye PDF eBook |
Author | George Jackson |
Publisher | Black Classic Press |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780933121232 |
Originally published: New York: Random House, 1972.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Title | One Hundred Years of Solitude PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 2022-10-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.
Bad
Title | Bad PDF eBook |
Author | James Edward Carr |
Publisher | AK Press |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2002-10-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781902593647 |
THE prison autobiography from the man who never stopped fighting.
Prison Life Writing
Title | Prison Life Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Rolston |
Publisher | Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 2021-06-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1771125187 |
Prison Life Writing is the first full-length study of one of the most controversial genres in American literature. By exploring the complicated relationship between life writing and institutional power, this book reveals the overlooked aesthetic innovations of incarcerated people and the surprising literary roots of the U.S. prison system. Simon Rolston observes that the autobiographical work of incarcerated people is based on a conversion narrative, a story arc that underpins the concept of prison rehabilitation and that sometimes serves the interests of the prison system, rather than those on the inside. Yet many imprisoned people rework the conversion narrative the way they repurpose other objects in prison. Like a radio motor retooled into a tattoo gun, the conversion narrative has been redefined by some authors for subversive purposes, including questioning the ostensible emancipatory role of prison writing, critiquing white supremacy, and broadly reimagining autobiographical discourse. An interdisciplinary work that brings life writing scholarship into conversation with prison studies and law and literature studies, Prison Life Writing theorizes how life writing works in prison, explains literature’s complicated entanglements with institutional power, and demonstrates the political and aesthetic innovations of one of America’s most fascinating literary genres.
America is the Prison
Title | America is the Prison PDF eBook |
Author | Lee Bernstein |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807833878 |
In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and literary writings. Lee Bernstein explores the forc
Captive Nation
Title | Captive Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Berger |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | 421 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1469618249 |
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era