Description du livre
Arresting Hope reminds us that prisons are not only places
of punishment, marginalization, and trauma, but that they can also be
places of hope, blessing even, where people with difficult lived
experiences can begin to compose stories full of healing, anticipation,
communication, education, connection, and community. The book tells a
story about women in a provincial prison in Canada, about how creative
leadership fostered opportunities for transformation and hope, and about
how engaging in research and writing contributed to healing.
The book includes poetry, stories, letters, interviews, fragments of
conversations, reflections, memories, quotations, journal entries,
creative nonfiction, and scholarly research. Out of multiple and diverse
possibilities involving many people, Arresting Hope is focused
on five women—a prison doctor, a prison warden, a prison recreation
therapist, a prison educator, and a prison inmate—and their stories of
grief, desire, and hope.