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- Title
"Visions Again Came To Me of My African Ancestors Bound and Dragged onto Slave Ships": From Political Autobiography to Burton's Post-Black Power Neo-Abolitionist Memoir.
- Authors
Alexander, Patrick Elliot
- Abstract
This article builds upon African American literary theorist Margo Perkins's conception of political autobiography from her award-winning book Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties , and the work of critical prison studies scholars Angela Y. Davis and Dylan Rodríguez. It reads Susan Burton's 2017 narrative, Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women , as reflecting an untheorized subgenre of African American confinement literature: the post-Black Power neo-abolitionist memoir. In the memoir, Burton alludes to slavery and anti-slavery activism to contextualize historically the post-Black Power-era prison-industrial complex and galvanize opposition to it.
- Subjects
ACTIVISM: Three Black Women of the Sixties (Book); ANCESTORS; ABOLITIONISTS; SLAVE ships; MEMOIRS; PERKINS, Margo; 21ST century (Literary period)
- Publication
College Literature, 2024, Vol 51, Issue 2, p139
- ISSN
0093-3139
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/lit.2024.a924341