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Self-Mutilations
Franklin, H. Bruce | February 16, 1998 issue

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This article presents information about the book "Yesterday Will Make You Cry," by Chester Himes. When Chester Himes was 19 years old, he was chained upside down, beaten by police until he confessed to an armed robbery, sentenced to twenty to twenty-five years and incarcerated in the Ohio State Penitentiary. The book presents African American experience obliquely, as an expression of its author's life in the prison hell that shaped Himes's tortured imagination, with all its seething and fertile contradictions. There could not be a fitter time or place for the publication of this great prison novel than today's U.S., the world's leader in prison construction and incarceration of its citizens.

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YESTERDAY Will Make You Cry (Book); HIMES, Chester B., 1909-1984; BOOKS; AFRICAN Americans; IMPRISONMENT; UNITED States
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