Ears Against the Wall: Listening to Incarcerated Voices through Literature

In this talk, we will approach literature through the lens of prison abolitionism, with textual grounding in José María Arguedas' El Sexto (1961) and Gérard Étienne's Le nègre crucifié (1974). How can we tune in to the carceral sociolinguistic environments that both authors inhabited, with their complex, conflicting, and multilingual contours? How might the prison novel function counter-discursively vis-à.vis carceral space?