Prison Writing and the Literary World

Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison writinand writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of literary representatioand formal aesthetics, the “value” or “values” of literaturetextual censorship and circulation, institutional networks and literary-criticamethodologies. It offers scholarly essays exploring prison writinin relation to wartime internment, political imprisonment, resistance anindependence creation, regimes of terror, and personal narratives of developmenand awakening that grapple with race, class and gender. Cuttinacross geospatial divides while drawing on nation- and region-specific expertiseit asks readers to connect the questions, examples and challengearising from prison writing and writing about imprisonment within thUK and the USA, but also across continental Europe, Stalinist Russia, thAmericas, Africa and the Middle East. It also includes critical reflectiopieces from authors, editors, educators and theatre practitioners with experiencof the fraught, testing and potentially inspiring links between prisoand the literary world.