"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.
Published In: College Literature, 2024, v. 51, n. 2. P. 139 1 of 3
Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3
Authored By: Alexander, Patrick Elliot 3 of 3
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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Additional Information
- Source:College Literature. 2024/04, Vol. 51, Issue 2, p139
- Document Type:Literary Criticism
- Subject Area:Law
- Publication Date:2024
- ISSN:0093-3139
- DOI:10.1353/lit.2024.a924341
- Accession Number:176509991
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