Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana

1. Introduction
Philip Edward Phillips, John R. Vile

2. Boethius, the Prisoner, and The Consolation of Philosophy

Philip Edward Phillips

3. “For This Was Drawyn by a Knyght Presoner”
Amy S. Kaufman

4. The Self-Incriminator
Robb A. McDaniel

5. John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress, and Nonconformist Prison Literature
Brett A. Hudson

6. Henry David Thoreau and the Principle of Passive Resistance
Tom Strawman

7. The Radicalization of Louise Michel
Nancy Sloan Goldberg

8. “From Prison to People”
Jane Marcellus

9. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
John R. Vile

10. “The Jail House Is Full of Blues”
Mark Allan Jackson

11. The Autobiography of Malcolm X and the African American Quest for Freedom and Literacy
Laura Dubek

12. Mehdi Zana and the Struggle for Kurdish Ethnic Identity in Turkey
Kari Neely

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Cultural History, Literary History, Social History