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Author Trapedo Sims, Leanne, author.

Title Reckoning with restorative justice : Hawai'i women's prison writing / Leanne Trapedo Sims
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 214 pages) : illustrations
Contents The American Gulag and Indigenous Incarceration in Hawai'i -- Pedagogy and Process -- "Home": Trauma and Desire -- The Stage Away from the Page -- "Love Letters" -- Post Release and Affective Writers -- Palliative Praxis or Pathways to Transformation?
Summary "In Reckoning with Restorative Justice, Leanne Trapedo Sims explores the experiences of women who are incarcerated at the Women's Community Correctional Center, the only women's prison in the state of Hawai'i. Adopting a decolonial and pro-abolitionist lens, she focuses particularly on women's participation in the Kailua Prison Writing Project and its accompanying Prison Monologues program. Trapedo Sims argues that while the writing project served as a vital resource for the inside women, it also remained deeply embedded within carceral logics at the institutional, state, and federal levels. She foregrounds different aspects of these programs, such as the classroom spaces and the dynamics that emerged between performer and audiences in the Prison Monologues. Blending ethnography, literary studies, psychological analysis, and criminal justice critique, Trapedo Sims centers the often-overlooked stories of incarcerated Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women in Hawai'i in ways that resound with the broader American narrative: the disproportionate incarceration of people of color in the prison-industrial complex"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Prisoners' writings, American -- Hawaii -- History and criticism
American literature -- Hawaii -- Women authors
Women prisoners -- Hawaii
American literature -- Hawaii -- 21st century -- History and criticism
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies.
American literature.
American literature -- Women authors.
Prisoners' writings, American.
Women prisoners.
Hawaii.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022056211
ISBN 1478027363
9781478027362