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Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons

Contributor(s): Smith McKoy, Sheila (Editor), Alexander, Patrick Elliot (Editor)

ISBN: 9781603295901

Publisher: Modern Language Association of America

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Pub Date: October 13, 2023

Dewey: 365.666

LCCN: 2023006991

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.10" H x 9.13" L x 6.06" W ( 1.30 lbs) 336 pages

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Description: ""Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching incarcerated students in prisons, jails, and juvenile centers, centering critical prison studies and abolitionist perspectives. Addresses fiction, poetry, drama, and creative writing in English and Spanish. Gives suggestions for college-level and college-preparatory courses, writing workshops, reading and discussion groups, and book clubs"--Provided by publisher"--

Review Quotes:

"This is the first anthology about teaching in prison that is openly written from an abolitionist perspective. A valuable addition to the discourse." --Victoria Law, author of "Prisons Make Us Safer" and Twenty Other Myths about Mass Incarceration

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