The history and culture of imprisonment - Western traditions and the colonial world, Graeme Harper; servants on the high seas -unfree labour in early modern captivity narratives, Daniel J. Vitkus; European women and the aboriginal folklore in Australian captivity narratives, Susan K. Martin; sermons of race -puritanism and the gallows in colonial North America, J. Kameron Carter; trading places - slave traders enslaved, Kerry Sinnanan; urban captivity - imprisonment and disease in the 18th century, Cynthia Ragland; cross-cultural comparisons - captivity narratives from North America to Australia, D'Arcy Randall and Kay Schaffer; the imprisoned body - power, property and ownership in Mali, Emily Haddad; empires of dark and light - Japanese prisons and narratives of survival, James A. Whitlark; gendering imprisonment - Muslim women in French colonial Algeria, James D. Le Seur; captivity in Kenya - detention camps and independence, Mary Ross; Chinese women and the prisons of exile, Di Gan; the construction of national identity in South Africa - apartheid prison narratives, Shane Graham; war and terror - imperialism and imprisonment in Irish literature, John Brannigan; colonial incarceration - rewriting the culture and history of the prison, Graeme Harper.
