Captivating subjects

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"Captivating Subjects is a collection of essays that fills several crucial gaps in the critical examination of the relations between Western state-sanctioned confinement, identity, nation, and literature. Editors Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright have brought together an esteemed group of international scholars to examine nineteenth-century writings by prisoners, slaves, and other captives, tracing some of the continuities among the varieties of captivity and their crucial relationship to post-Enlightenment subjectivities." "This volume is the first sustained examination of the ways in which the diverse kinds of confinement intersect with Western ideologies of subjectivity, investigating the modern nation-state's reliance on captivity as a means of consolidating notions of individual and national sovereignty. It details the specific historical and cultural practices of confinement and their relations to each other and to punishment through a range of national contexts."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Imprisonment,  Prisoners' writings,  History,  Sources,  History and criticism,  Captivity narratives,  Subjectivity,  Écrits de prisonniers,  Histoire et critique,  Emprisonnement,  Histoire,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Penology,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  General,  Strafvollzug,  Sozialpolitik,  Social aspects,  Récits de captivité,  Subjectivité