The poetry and politics of incarceration.
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Alex Humphreys deposited Supporting the Academic Research Needs of Incarcerated Students: Building JSTOR’s Offline Solution for Prison Education in the group
Prisons on Humanities Commons 7 months, 4 weeks agoIncarcerated students often lack access to the resources and conditions, both physical and digital, that make self-directed research and research skill-building possible. Due to technical constraints – most notably the lack of internet access in most prison environments – few incarcerated students have access to research databases commonly use…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Literature as a Tribunal: The Modern Iranian Prose of Incarceration in the group
Prisons on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThis essay examines the development of prison memoirs in modern Iranian prose, with a focus on how literary texts function as a tribunal, delivering forms of justice missing from the existing legal system. It constructs from the prison memoirs of a range of dissident writers (Dashti, ʿAlavi, and Baraheni) a genealogy of prison consciousness in…[Read more]
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