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Who We Are: Incarcerated Students and the New Prison Literature, 1995-2010

Date: 2013-05-01

Creator: Reilly Hannah N Lorastein

Access: Open access

This project focuses on American prison writings from the late 1990s to the 2000s. Much has been written about American prison intellectuals such as Malcolm X, George Jackson, Eldridge Cleaver, and Angela Davis, who wrote as active participants in black and brown freedom movements in the United States. However the new prison literature that has emerged over the past two decades through higher education programs within prisons has received little to no attention. This study provides a more nuanced view of the steadily growing silent population in the United States through close readings of Openline, an inter-disciplinary journal featuring poetry, essays, fiction, and visual art created by incarcerated students enrolled in the College Program at San Quentin State Prison. By engaging the first person perspective of the incarcerated subject, this project will reveal how incarcerated individuals describe themselves, how they maintain and create intimate relationships from behind bars, and their critiques of the criminal justice system. From these readings, the project outlines conventions of “the incarcerated experience” as a subject position, with an eye toward further research analyzing the intersection of one's “incarcerated status” with one’s race, class, gender, and sexuality.


Miniature of When There's A Fire–Short Stories
When There's A Fire–Short Stories
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      Date: 2023-01-01

      Creator: Zoë Ellis Wilson

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        This is What You Want: Stories

        Date: 2017-05-01

        Creator: Savannah Blake Horton

        Access: Open access

        This is What You Want: Stories is a collection of nine stories exploring the role of humor in dark situations. It is a work of fiction.


        Miniature of This Is All for You: Stories
        This Is All for You: Stories
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            Date: 2023-01-01

            Creator: Catherine Crouch

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              Miniature of They Used to Be Castles
              They Used to Be Castles
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                  Date: 2021-01-01

                  Creator: Lily Anna Fullam

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                    Re-formando cuerpos: Las identidades femeninas en escritoras cubanas durante el Período Especial

                    Date: 2014-01-01

                    Creator: Amanda M Montenegro

                    Access: Open access

                    Esta tesis explora cómo una variedad de autoras cubanas representan el cuerpo, las identidades femeninas y la relación entre las mujeres y la nación. Las autoras estudiadas incluyen Marilyn Bobes, Karla Suárez y Daína Chaviano. Sus narrativas ilustran y desarrollan una variedad de personajes –desde las mujeres blancas prerrevolucionarias hasta las “hijas de la revolución” afrocubanas—que representan diferentes maneras en que las mujeres construyen y reconstruyen sus identidades en la Cuba revolucionaria y hasta el comienzo del “Período especial”. Ilustran además cómo las mujeres vivieron fenómenos propios de ese período como la migración, la dolarización y el jineterismo. Así, revelan los fracasos en cuanto a la igualdad de género de la revolución, que no transformó la estructura patriarcal de la sociedad. Sin embargo, las autoras presentan una nación cubana polifacética compuesta de más que el Estado, donde las escritoras y las mujeres luchan por definirse a sí mismas. This paper explores how various female Cuban authors represent the body, female identities and the relationship between women and the nation. The authors studied include Marilyn Bobes, Karla Suárez and Daína Chaviano. Their narratives illustrate and develop a variety of characters—ranging from white prerevolutionary women to afro-Cuban “daughters of the Revolution”—which represent different ways in which women construct and reconstruct their identities during revolutionary Cuba and at the beginning of the “Special Period.” The characters also illustrate how women in particular experienced and dealt with the effects of the Special Period such as migration, dollarization and jineterismo. Thus, they reveal the failures of the Cuban Revolution regarding gender equality of the Revolution, which did not transform the patriarchal structure of society. However, the authors present a multifaceted Cuban nation comprised of more than just the State, where writers and women struggle to define themselves.


                    Miniature of Pathways: Montana Stories and Poems
                    Pathways: Montana Stories and Poems
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                      Date: 2024-01-01

                      Creator: Tess Davis

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                        Miniature of Nonprophets: a novel
                        Nonprophets: a novel
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                          • Embargo End Date: 2025-05-14

                          Date: 2020-01-01

                          Creator: Nathan Osiason Blum

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                            Invisible Ailments: A Collection

                            Date: 2023-01-01

                            Creator: Jane L. Godiner

                            Access: Open access

                            "Invisible Ailments" is a collection of short stories that trace the depth, breath, and sweeping range of lived experiences of people struggling with mental illness. While it is a work of fiction, the people in these stories might feel eerily familiar — to your friends, your family members, your loved ones, or, if you're brave enough to admit it, yourself.


                            Miniature of Ink
                            Ink
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                              • Embargo End Date: 2025-05-19

                              Date: 2022-01-01

                              Creator: Andrew MacGregor Nicholson

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