Diaspora
USA
Contemporary
English
Fiction
Noted for comparison: a novel of house arrest and elegant confinement — interesting as contrast to how African writers depict confinement and surveillance without access to the elegance Towles describes.
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Comparison text; demonstrates how confinement narratives differ across racial and class lines
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editorial-summarynot primary textNoted for comparison: a novel of house arrest and elegant confinement — interesting as contrast to how African writers depict confinement and surveillance without access to the elegance Towles describes. Comparison text; demonstrates how confinement narratives differ across racial and class lines
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