Carceral Liberalism

Shreerekha Pillai is a professor of humanities at the University of Houston, Clear Lake. She is the author of Women Writing Violence: The Novel and Radical Feminist Imaginaries.

Foreword Demita Frazier Acknowledgments

Introduction Shreerekha Pillai

Part One: Carceral Narratives and Fictions

Poems: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, “Pantoum for a Black Man on a Greyhound Bus” and “Lost Letter #27: John Peters, Boston-Gaol to Phillis Wheatley Peters, Boston, December 3, 1784″

1. Carceral Trauma at the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Maternity

 Cassandra D. Little

2. Prisons and Politics: Conceptualizing Prison Memoirs

 Shailza Sharma

3. Seeing Orange: Mediatizing the Prison Empire

 Shreerekha Pillai

4. Emptied Chairs and Faceless Inmates: A Critical Analysis of the Texas Prison Museum

 Beth Matusoff Merfish

Poems: Ravi Shankar, “Against Innocence” and “Sunday School” The Stories that will not be Confined

Poems: Solmaz Sharif, “Reaching Guantánamo”

Part Two: Carceral Bodies and Systems

Poem: Jeremy Eugene, “Space”

5. These Stories Will Not Be Confined

 Joanna Eleftheriou

6. Cornered: Day Laborers, Criminalization and Rituals of Democracy in Texas

 Francisco Argüelles Paz y Puente, aka Pancho

7. Resisting Criminalization: Principles, Practicalities, and Possibilities of Alternative Justices Beyond the State

 Autumn Elizabeth, Zarinah Agnew, D Coulombe

8. Going Carceral? Analyzing Written and Visual Representations of Prison Yoga Programs

 Tria Blu Wakpa and Jennifer Musial

9. Vacant Refuge, Unfinished Resettlement: Gendered Nativism and the Experience of Ambivalence among Displaced Syrian Iraqi and Women and Children in Houston, Texas

 Maria F. Curtis

10. Gendered Punishment and Social Control: Silenced Memories of Women in Wartime Peru

 Marta Romero-Delgado

11. Bad Girls of Pindra Tod

 Alka Kurian

Poem: Javier Zamora, “Citizenship”

Contributors

Index