Prison Writing and the Literary World

Michelle Kelly is a Departmental Lecturer in World Literature in Englishat the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford.Her research focuses on South African and world literature, confessionalnarrative forms, the intersections between law and literature, and literatureand other art forms. She has published several articles on J.M.Coetzee,and is completing a monograph on Coetzee and confession.Claire Westall is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and RelatedLiterature at the University of York. Her forthcoming book is TheRites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature. She is also co-author of ThePublic on the Public (2015), and co-editor of both Cross-Gendered LiteraryVoices (2012) and Literature of an Independent England (2013).

• Notes on Contributors ixAcknowledgements xvIntroduction: A Wide and Worlded Vision of Prison Writing 1CLAIRE WESTALLProblems and Silences 191 The Credibility of Elves?: Narrative Exclusion and PrisonWriting 21SARAH COLVINPoWs and Purges 392 German Military Internees Writing the FirstWorld War: Gender, Irony and Humour in the CampNewspaper Stobsiade 41ANNE SCHWAN3 The Prison Writings of Nikolai Bukharin 58HOWARD CAYGILLPrison Spaces and Nation (Re)Making 754 Prison Writing and the Algerian War of Independence 77EMILIE MORIN5 Writing from Robben Island: National Identity and theApartheid Prison in South Africa 93DANIEL ROUX6 Writing South Africa’s Prisons into History 110JONNY STEINBERGCensorship, Advocacy and Text Creation 1217 “His Enemy’s Language”: African American Prison LifeWriting, the Literary Forms of Institutional Power andGeorge Jackson’s Soledad Brother 123SIMON ROLSTON8 PEN and the Writer as Prisoner 139MICHELLE KELLY9 Scribo Ergo Sum: Creating and PublishingGuantánamo Diary 156MOHAMEDOU OULD SLAHI AND LARRY SIEMSFrom Life to Fiction 17110 Writing Against the Regime: Metafiction in the ArabicPrison Novel 173R. SHAREAH TALEGHANI11 Anarcha-Feminism, Prison and Utopia: The AbolitionistPolitics of Alison Spedding’s De cuando en cuandoSaturnina and La segunda vez como farsa 189JOEY WHITFIELDWomen, Theatre and Clean Break 20712 Something About Us: Clean Break’s Theatre of Necessity 209CAOIMHE MCAVINCHEY13 Unlocking Potential: The Role of Theatre Writing inPrisons in the Work of Clean Break 227ANNA HERRMANN, DEBORAH BRUCE AND CLARE BARSTOWLiterary Workshops 23714 Literary Studies and the Teaching of Prison Texts 239CLAIRE WESTALL15 Folsom Prison Writing Workshop 256ROGER ROBINSONIndex 257

This is a collection of lively and interesting contributions to the field of prison writing, with an ambitious spread across geographies and eras. It enables us to chart the connections (or dissimilarities) of prison writing, which is exposed as an unstable practice of discontinuities. -- Dr Aylwyn Walsh, University of Leeds