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Prison literature is the literary genre of works written by an author in unwilling confinement, such as a prison, jail or house arrest. [1] The writing can be about prison, informed by it, or simply incidentally written while in prison. It could be a memoir, nonfiction, or fiction.
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Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number (Spanish: Preso Sin Nombre, Celda Sin Numero) is a 1981 memoir by the left-wing Argentine journalist and publisher Jacobo Timerman, who was imprisoned without due-process during the Dirty War in Argentina in April 1977 and subsequently tortured.
Prisoners have produced hundreds of works that have encompassed a wide range of literature. [...] Books describing the prison experience, including the Autobiography of Malcolm X, inspired an audience far outside the prison walls. The importance of these works has been recognized in this country's highest courts.
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Escape from Furnace is a series of five novels written by British author Alexander Gordon Smith. [1] The books are written from perspective of the teenage protagonist Alex Sawyer and describe his incarceration in the fictional London prison Furnace Penitentiary.
Andersonville is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Confederate prisoner of war camp Andersonville prison during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The novel was originally published in 1955, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year. Kantor's novel was not the basis for a 1996 John Frankenheimer film Andersonville ...