Documenting a theater project for incarcerated youth in a New Mexico juvenile detention facility, this book presents the script of a play about prison life, and interweaves the author's creative, self-reflective text (autoethnography). The collaborative experience of writing and staging such a play enacted by prisoners frames a discussion of larger social and political themes in the criminal justice system, and of the complexities of getting juveniles to engage with administrators and social workers as mentors.
| ISBN: | 9781476669052 |
| Publication date: | 30th November 2017 |
| Author: | Nandita Dinesh |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Co Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 167 pages |
| Genres: |
Individual actors and performers Theatre studies |