Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana

Laura Dubek, Middle Tennessee State University, USA Nancy Sloan Goldberg, Middle Tennessee State University, USA Brett A. Hudson, Middle Tennessee State University, USA Mark Allan Jackson, Middle Tennessee State University, USA Amy S. Kaufman, Middle Tennessee State University, USA Jane Marcellus, Middle Tennessee State University, USA Robb A. McDaniel, Middle Tennessee State University, USA Kari Sue Neely, Middle Tennessee State University, USA Tom Strawman, Middle Tennessee State University, USA John R. Vile, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

• Introduction; Philip Edward Phillips and John R. Vile 1. Boethius, the Prisoner, and The Consolation of Philosophy ; Philip Edward Phillips 2. 'For This was Drawyn by a Knyght Presoner': Sir Thomas Malory and Le Morte Darthur ; Amy S. Kaufman 3. The Self-Incriminator: John Lilburne, the Star Chamber, and the English Origins of American Liberty; Robb McDaniel 4. John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, and Nonconformist Prison Literature; Brett Hudson 5. Henry David Thoreau and the Principle of Passive Resistance; Tom Strawman 6. The Radicalization of Louise Michel; Nancy Sloan Goldberg 7. 'From Prison to People': How Women Jailed for Suffrage Inscribed Their Prison Experience upon the American Public; Jane Marcellus 8. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: An Exemplar of Costly Discipleship in Action; John R. Vile 9. 'The Jail House is Full of Blues': Lead Belly's Prison Pleas; Mark Allan Jackson 10. The Autobiography of Malcolm X and the African American Quest for Freedom and Literacy; Laura Dubek 11. Mehdi Zana and the Struggle for Kurdish Ethnic Identity; Kari Neely

“Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana, edited by Philip Edward Phillips, defines a new generic lens and literary tradition through which to approach Boethius, and they have the great potential to energize Boethius Studies in an exciting new direction.” (Krista Sue-Lo Twu, Carmina Philosophiae, Vol. 23, 2014)