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Starting from a transgeneric and transregional approach, Isabel Schröder’s monograph is devoted to African prison literature. The study brings into view the female voices that are often neglected in the reception of the genre and demonstrates their diversity. For the first time, the work brings toge...
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| Format: | Online |
| Idioma: | alemany |
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Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (WVT)
2026
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| Accés en línia: | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177709 |
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| Sumari: | Starting from a transgeneric and transregional approach, Isabel Schröder’s monograph is devoted to African prison literature. The study brings into view the female voices that are often neglected in the reception of the genre and demonstrates their diversity. For the first time, the work brings together numerous English- and French-language texts from different regions of Africa and provides a detailed analysis of six texts by African women authors from Eritrea, Cameroon, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, and Zimbabwe, published between 1970 and 2015. Both personal testimonies of prisoners and fictional novels depicting life in prison are examined. This research approach is of particular interest because both types of texts fulfill testimonial functions while simultaneously employing strategies of fictional narration. Despite the very different historical-political and cultural contexts of the prison texts, they often share a common feature: on the thematic level, they express criticism of political and social conditions and appeal to a moral community. This criticism is frequently gender-specific; however, it can only be conceived and understood in relation to other categories of difference, which is why the analysis consistently follows an intersectional approach. The prison space itself is understood as a “heterotopia” in the sense of Michel Foucault—a space that enables prisoners, among other things, to perceive, question, and in some cases subvert social structures in different ways. In this manner, a critical perspective emerges on the impenetrability and closed nature of the prison, one that probes the boundaries of literature and power. |
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