| Incarceration Nation: Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror Contributor(s): Hartnett, Stephen John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0759104204 ISBN-13: 9780759104204 Publisher: Altamira Press OUR PRICE: $49.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2003 Annotation: Use of investigative poetics to describe the American justice and penal systems. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Social Science | Methodology - Social Science | Penology |
| Dewey: 811.540 |
| LCCN: 2003049550 |
| Series: Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.88" W x 9.12" (0.72 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Stephen Hartnett merges the evocative power of poetry with scholarly research to produce both a genre-bending critique of the prison industrial complex and an innovative new method of qualitative research. Based on ten years of teaching in, writing about, and protesting at prisons across America, Harnett weaves together the hopes of prisoners, their families, and friends with the stories of activist communities struggling against the death penalty, the war on drugs, and a culture that treats prisoners as commodities. Full of materials from philosophers, poets, and historians, rich in personal detail, and written as a passionate and urgent call for justice, Incarceration Nation shows the power of ethnographic poetry to give voice to the hopes and horrors of a generation confronted by the mass-production of criminality. |