Recently added articles from Texas Studies in Literature and Language:
Tony Hilfer in memoriam.(Obituary)
Dec 22, 2008; ... The editor wishes to thank Mary Blockley, John Rumrich, and Lance Bertelsen for their assistance in selecting these essays. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tony was so important to me--from the moment I took my first class from him as a nineteen-year-old, he inspired me with ...
Cultures of Detention.
Sep 22, 2008; ... The guest editor wishes to thank Brian Bremen, Susan Sage Heinzelman, Martin Kevorkian, Anthony Hilfer, and Gretchen Murphy for their assistance in selecting these essays. Cultures of Detention More than one out of every two hundred U.S. residents (by far the highest ...
The inside stories of the global American prison.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Three decades ago, I wrote that the literature of the American prison is not "some peripheral cultural phenomenon but something close to the center of our historical experience as a nation-state." (1) Back then, there were 300,000 people in U.S. domestic prisons and jails. Today there are ...
Detention without subjects: prisons and the poetics of living death.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... He has ceased to be a citizen, but cannot be looked upon as an alien, for he is without a country; he does not exist save as a human being, and this, by a sort of commiseration which has no source in the law. --Guyot, "Civil Death" In a recent study of "Indefinite ...
Pits, Pendulums, and Penitentiaries: reframing the detained subject.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... In the late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century United States, both the Auburn and Philadelphia prisons put new models of penal detention into practice. (1) Despite some divergences in theory and practice, both penitentiary systems framed detention as a means of reformation. Both also ...