{"product_id":"critical-prison-theory-and-literature-palimpsest-paperback-1","title":"Critical Prison Theory and Literature: Palimpsest - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNoe Martinez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSarah Higinbotham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a concrete classroom, two hands meet in a welcome handshake. One belongs to a professor who has never seen the inside of a cell and the other to a graffiti artist whose decade behind bars taught him to read power like fault lines in stone. Eleven years later, that handshake has transformed into\u003ci\u003e Critical Prison Theory and Literature: Palimpsest.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors put themselves, stories, and theory about prison in conversation, following five metaphors through mass incarceration: retribution as code, isolation as cell, trauma as wound, creativity as graffiti tag, restorative justice as kitchen table. Pairing texts across centuries--\u003cem\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/em\u003e with Batman comics, \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e with \u003cem\u003eThe House on Mango Street\u003c\/em\u003e--this book represents their part of that larger conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNoe Martinez, a formerly incarcerated artist and author of Mexican and Apache descent, has published on Shakespeare's \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e, co-authored an academic chapter on how to teach math inside prison, and has been featured widely in art exhibitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Higinbotham is an Associate Professor of English at Emory University's Oxford College. She co-founded a statewide program for college programming inside state prisons and has taught more than 4,000 hours of literature studies inside men's and women's prisons. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 190\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 28, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53801310683443,"sku":"9781032612263","price":100.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/qtK7rueUyp9781032612263_341d01eb-af47-47c3-8529-bc191743c47e.webp?v=1785968784","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/critical-prison-theory-and-literature-palimpsest-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}