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- Title
THE COLOR OF PRISON.
- Authors
Sharma, Devika
- Abstract
The article discusses the issues of race discrimination, ghettoization and poverty in the novels "The Man in My Basement," by Walter Mosley and "The Fortress of Solitude," by Jonathan Lethem. It also examines the term, neo-slave narrative, as coined by John Edgar Wideman. It cites several literary works, including "Beloved," by Toni Morrison, "Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and U.S. Culture," by Brian Jarvis, and "Soul on Ice," by Eldridge Cleaver.
- Subjects
RACE discrimination; POVERTY literature; MAN in My Basement, The (Book); FORTRESS of Solitude, The (Book); BELOVED (Book : Morrison); MOSLEY, Walter, 1952-; LETHEM, Jonathan, 1964-; MORRISON, Toni, 1931-2019
- Publication
Callaloo, 2014, Vol 37, Issue 3, p662
- ISSN
0161-2492
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cal.2014.0097