Scripting Detention
A Project in Theater and Autoethnography with Incarcerated Teens| By: | Nandita Dinesh |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |
| Print ISBN: | 9781476669052 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781476629834 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2017 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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 variously positioned mentors.