A Lingual Politic: Power and Resistance in Sacred, Secular, and Subaltern Narratives in an Age of Mass Incarceration

A Lingual Politic: Power and Resistance in Sacred, Secular, and Subaltern Narratives in an Age of Mass Incarceration

This article submits that the confluence of language and power proliferate social strata and exacts violence on subaltern bodies in a punitive age of mass incarceration. I explore racialized social hierarchies in Judeo-Christian sacred texts and its relationship to secular texts that mark subaltern...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nikia Smith Robert
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Pluto Journals 2016-01-01
Series:	Horizontes Decoloniales
Online Access:	https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/decohori.2.0163

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