As it traces the textual history of the works of authors like Bobby Sands and Gerry Adams, this book analyses Republican resistance to disciplinary structures, demonstrating the ways in which prisoners appropriate space through discursive strategies.

Autorentext
LACHLAN WHALEN is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction: Taoibh Amuigh agus Faoi Ghlas: The Counter-aesthetics of Republican Prison Writing "Our Barbed Wire Ivory Tower": The Cages of Long Kesh "Comrades in the Dark": Writing in the H Blocks, 19761981 "Silence or Cell?": Women Writing in Armagh, Maghaberry, and Durham "Captive Voices": Post-1981 Republican Prison Writing Postscript: "You Look Like Jesus Christ": Images of Republican POWs in Contemporary Cinema