PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Michelle Kelly is a Departmental Lecturer in World Literature in English at the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on South African and world literature, confessional narrative forms, the intersections between law and literature, and literature and other art forms. She has published several articles on J.M.Coetzee, and is completing a monograph on Coetzee and confession. Claire Westall is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. Her forthcoming book is The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature. She is also co-author of The Public on the Public (2015), and co-editor of both Cross-Gendered Literary Voices (2012) and Literature of an Independent England (2013).
This is a collection of lively and interesting contributions to the field of prison writing, with an ambitious spread across geographies and eras. It enables us to chart the connections (or dissimilarities) of prison writing, which is exposed as an unstable practice of discontinuities. -- Dr Aylwyn Walsh, University of Leeds
