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 Guantánamo 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.
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Gordon, A. F. (2019). The subversive pencil: writing, prison and political status. Race and Class, 60(3), 14–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396818810986
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