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Jail Sentences: Representing Prison in Twentieth-Century French Fiction

Jail Sentences: Representing Prison in Twentieth-Century French Fiction

Sobanet, Andrew

Hardcover

Series: Stages

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0803213794
ISBN13: 9780803213791
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Sep 1 2008
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
A long list of canonical writers in Western literature have experienced incarceration and have subsequently written celebrated works about the imprisoned and the condemned. The French tradition is no exception: writers who produced noteworthy texts while incarcerated or who later wrote about their experiences in prison are found on the literary-historical landscape from the medieval era through the twentieth century. Prison writing by inmates, former guards, chaplains, teachers, and doctors is firmly established as part of the fabric of popular culture and has long attracted the attention of culture critics and scholars. Nevertheless, scant analysis exists of the prison novel--a literary genre that, as Andrew Sobanet argues in Jail Sentences, uses fiction as a documentary tool. Its narrative peculiarities, which are the main subjects of Sobanet's study, include the use of autobiographical and testimonial techniques to critique the penitentiary system.

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