Acknowledgments

Opening Statements

Part One: The Carceral Society

‘They locked the door on my meditations’: Thoreau, Society, and the Prison House of Identity

‘Cast of Characters’: Problems of Identity and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Part Two: Writing Wrongs

‘To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law’: The Paradox of the Individual in De Profundis

Positioning Discourse: Martin Luther King Jr’s ‘Letter from Birmingham City Jail’

Part Three: Prisons, Privilege, and Complicity

Being Jane Warton: Lady Constance Lytton and the Disruption of Privilege

Frustrating Complicity in Breyten Breytenbach’s The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist

Closing Statements / Opening Arguments

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Jason Haslam is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame.