Scripting Detention: A Project in Theater and Autoethnography with Incarcerated Teens

By Nandita Dinesh

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476669058
• ISBN13: 9781476669052
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher