Rachel Anna Knighton completed her PhD in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, for which she was awarded a Graduate Research Scholarship by Girton College. Her PhD research forms the basis of this book.

• CONTENTS: «I was never one for writing diaries»: The Individual and the Collective in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary (1981) – «We were all serving time»: Prison Memoir and Perspectival Variation in Ruth First’s 117 Days (1965) – «Language needs to be a part of resistance therapy»: Narrating Psychological Breakdown and Political Opposition in Wole Soyinka’s The Man Died (1972) – «Moving the body means life»: Liberation and the Body in Nawal El Saadawi’s Memoirs from the Women’s Prison (1986) – «[W]hat song shall I sing from this stench?»: Creating a Prison Poetics in Jack Mapanje’s And Crocodiles Are Hungry at Night (2011).

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