Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Symphony of Sorrow: Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis 19
6. 2. Defamiliarising the Dungeon: Alexander Berkman’s Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist 28
7. 3. An Immense World of Delight: Rosa Luxemburg’s Prison Writing 44
8. 4. Uncle Ez Do the Polis in Different Voices: The Pisan Cantos as Prison Writing 61
9. 5. Seeing the Gorgon: Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man 76
10. 6. The Gulag Work Ethic: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 92
11. 7. Decorous Perceptions at the Cracking Point: Ruth First’s 117 Days 108
12. 8. House Style: Black Prison Writing of the 1970s 125
13. 9. Living Hell: Bobby Sands’ Prison Writing 142
14. 10. ‘Free Thoughts on Toilet Paper!’: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o at Kamĩtĩ 159
15. 11. Antigone Evolved: Nawal el-Saadawi’s Memoirs of the Women’s Prison 177
16. 12. So Much Malice: Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains 191
17. Bibliography 210
18. Index 220