Twentieth-Century American Literature
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787). This special issue belongs to the section "Literature in the Humanities".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2022) | Viewed by 12765
Special Issue Editors
Interests: American literature; native american literature; gender and sexuality in literature; prison studies; critical methods
Interests: American studies; public humanities; prison studies; twentieth-century American literature
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It’s a statistic we hear often: the United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other nation. Yet, many U.S. Americans can go about their daily lives without thinking about their physical proximity to prisons or the people locked within. Prisons have become increasingly removed to rural, remote areas, set back from main highways, not visible from shopping centers, restaurants, and housing developments. Likewise, the U.S. political landscape works hard to obfuscate the realities of life locked up, reducing mass incarceration to shocking statistics. However, prisons remain hidden in plain sight, coming to life in American literature and film.
While geography and political discourse can work to obscure the realities of who is locked up, where, why, and for how long, art about prison reveals cultural anxieties about America’s penal practices. This special issue on twentieth-century US American literature invites submissions investigating Americans’ longstanding cultural impulses to write, read, and watch stories about prison. We are especially interested in contributions that explore abolitionist histories and activist practices as well as intersectional analyses.
Completed articles of 5000–7000 words should be submitted by 15 Sep 2022 to the email address of Special Issue editors <[email protected]>. Inquiries welcome and should be directed to the Special Issue Editors.
Dr. Yvonne Hammond
Dr. Katy Ryan
Dr. Valerie Surrett
Guest Editors
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Keywords
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prison
- abolition
- race/racism
- incarceration
- trauma/generational trauma
- literature
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