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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>The first interdisciplinary study of mass incarceration to intersect the fields of literary studies, critical prison studies, and human rights<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="2426_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1 class = "booktitle">From Slave Ship to Supermax</h1> <h1 class = "subtitle">Mass Incarceration, Prisoner Abuse, and the New Neo-Slave Novel</h1>
<h3>Patrick Elliot Alexander </h3>
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<p>In his cogent and groundbreaking book, <i>From Slave Ship to Supermax</i>, Patrick Elliot Alexander argues that the disciplinary logic and violence of slavery haunt depictions of the contemporary U.S. prison in late twentieth-century Black fiction. Alexander links representations of prison life in James Baldwin's novel <i>If Beale Street Could Talk</i> to his engagements with imprisoned intellectuals like George Jackson, who exposed historical continuities between slavery and mass incarceration. Likewise, Alexander reveals how Toni Morrison's <i>Beloved</i> was informed by Angela Y. Davis's jail writings on slavery-reminiscent practices in contemporary women's facilities. Alexander also examines recurring associations between slave ships and prisons in Charles Johnson's <i>Middle Passage, </i>and connects slavery's logic of racialized premature death to scenes of death row imprisonment in Ernest Gaines' <i>A Lesson Before Dying</i>. <br/><br/>Alexander ultimately makes the case that contemporary Black novelists depict racial terror as a centuries-spanning social control practice that structured carceral life on slave ships and slave plantations-and that mass-produces prisoners and prisoner abuse in post-Civil Rights America. These authors expand free society's view of torment confronted and combated in the prison industrial complex, where discriminatory laws and the institutionalization of secrecy have reinstated slavery's system of dehumanization.<br>
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<H2 class="inpageheading"><A NAME="author bio"></a>About the Author(s)</H2><p><b>Patrick Elliot Alexander</b> is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi and co-founder of the University of Mississippi Prison-to-College Pipeline Program at Parchman/Mississippi State Penitentiary.<br>
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