Forms of Imprisonment

Imprisonment can be manifested in various ways. Be it structure, border, boundary, or any other aspect of limitation that creates, confines, incarcerates, captivates, or encloses strange worlds inside or outside their imagined or actual lines of appearance and/or disappearance. As they are conceptualized and/or experienced, these forms demarcate realities and impose partitions, divisions, and separations upon bodies, territories, spaces, and times. We explore literary, theoretical, and philosophical texts that deal with forms of imprisonment possessing varying degrees of permeability, such as the borders of modern nation-states, colonized territories, memory, identity, spatio-temporal enclosures, forms of thought, language, or power relevant to literary, intellectual, political, and cultural inventions.