A Slow Death before Dying: Contemporary Stories from Solitary Confinement
As the ultimate spaces of invisibility and marginalization beyond the pale of respectable humanity, prisons engender the “mortification” of inmates, whether understood as a ‘civil death’, the stripping away of citizenship rights and of the legal protections deriving from them, or as a ‘social death...
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European journal of American studies
2023
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| Summary: | As the ultimate spaces of invisibility and marginalization beyond the pale of respectable humanity, prisons engender the “mortification” of inmates, whether understood as a ‘civil death’, the stripping away of citizenship rights and of the legal protections deriving from them, or as a ‘social death’ triggered by the absence of any meaningful intercourse with society and crippling isolation at the margins of humanity. This is even more acutely the case for those subjected to protracted solita... |
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