Proliferating Sentences: Reginald Dwayne Betts' Felon (2019).
In Felon, Reginald Dwayne Betts prises open the contexts which determine the manifest meaning of prison sentences pronounced in the courtroom and carried out in the American carceral system. His lyrical voice pluralises the subject receiving and experiencing the sentence, and explores the liminal sp...
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Edinburgh University Press
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