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| Series Preface | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Identifying the Boundaries of Confinement | p. 9 |
| Writing from No Man's Land: The Black Man's Quest for Freedom from behind the Walls | p. 11 |
| Lessons before Dying: The Contemporary Confined Character-in-Process | p. 32 |
| Mind-Blown: Possibility and Trauma in Native Son | p. 58 |
| Confined Spaces and Places | p. 81 |
| Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson before Dying: Freedom in Confined Spaces | p. 83 |
| Doing Time in/as "The Monster": Abject Identity in African-American Prison Literature | p. 118 |
| Faith's Fickle Covenant: African-American Captivity Narratives from the Vietnam War | p. 154 |
| Contributors | p. 179 |
| Index | p. 181 |
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