%0 Journal Article
%T The subversive pencil: writing, prison and political status
%A Avery F. Gordon
%J Race & Class
%@ 1741-3125
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0306396818810986
%X The article offers a personal recollection of Barbara Harlow and her impact on the author¡¯s intellectual development. Harlow¡¯s book Barred: women, writing, and political detention (1992) and her later writings on the US military prison at Guantš¢namo Bay are revisited for their contemporary significance. The author situates Harlow as a unique literary critic whose sustained work was conjunctural reading, translating and writing across geopolitical and disciplinary borders; her interventions being made in commitment to her honed liberatory agendas and visions
%K women
%K writing and political detention
%K Guantš¢namo
%K human rights
%K political struggle
%K prison literature
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306396818810986