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Hedges, Chris.
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Hedges, Chris.
New Jersey Prison Theater Cooperative.
Prisoners -- Education.
Creative writing -- Study and teaching.
Creative writing -- Therapeutic use.
Playwriting.
Prisoners' writings, American.
Prisoners, Black -- United States.
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Hedges, Chris.
Hedges, Chris.
New Jersey Prison Theater Cooperative.
Prisoners -- Education.
Creative writing -- Study and teaching.
Creative writing -- Therapeutic use.
Playwriting.
Prisoners' writings, American.
Prisoners, Black -- United States.
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The
class
:
trauma
and
transformation
in an
American
prison
/ Chris Hedges.
by
Hedges, Chris.
Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2021.
Call #:
812.6 H453c
Subjects
Hedges, Chris.
New Jersey
Prison
Theater Cooperative.
Prisoners -- Education.
Creative writing -- Study and teaching.
Creative writing -- Therapeutic use.
Playwriting.
Prisoners' writings,
American
.
Prisoners, Black -- United States.
ISBN:
9780735281103 (hc)
Description:
257 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-241) and index.
Summary:
"A haunting and powerfully moving book that gives voice to the poorest among us and lays bare the cruelty of a penal system that too often defines their lives. In this unforgettable work, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges, who brought us War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning and America, The Farewell Tour, provides an intimate and moving look at the lives of the students he teaches in a maximum-security
prison
. He and twenty-eight students (who together are serving a combined sentence of 515 years) read and discussed plays by Amiri Baraka, John Herbert, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Miguel Piñero and August Wilson, among others. Together they set out to write an original play drawing on their experiences of poverty, institutionalized racism, police brutality and mass incarceration. (Their play, Caged, would eventually perform to sold-out audiences and be published as a book in 2020.) In The
Class
, the men -- some of whom know they will die in
prison
-- give voice to the struggles of grief, shame, injustice, guilt and generational
trauma
they and their families have endured, as well as to their hopes and dreams. Hedges chronicles with heart-breaking intimacy the emotional struggle for artistic expression that leads to self-awareness,
transformation
and redemption. The
Class
is at once a story of creative triumph and a scorching critique of the racialized poverty that plagues North America and what it does to the most vulnerable."--Publisher.
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