Day: March 9, 2015
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Teju Cole has been awarded one of the 2015 Windham-Campbell Prize in fiction
Congratulations Teju Cole! http://news.yale.edu/2015/02/24/nine-writers-four-countries-awarded-150000-windham-campbell-prizes
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“Producing the Prison: A Spatial History of Prisoners in Colonial India”
Mira Rai Waits University of California, Santa Barbara “Producing the Prison: A Spatial History of Prisoners in Colonial India” Nineteenth- and twentieth- century histories of prisons in British India have followed three narratives. British imperial history presented prisons as exceptional infrastructural improvements essential to governance. In Indian nationalist history, prisons became synonymous with British rule and…