Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 590 g
Reihe: Spatial Practices
The 'Warder' in the British Literary and Cultural Imagination
Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 590 g
Reihe: Spatial Practices
ISBN: 978-90-420-3934-6
Verlag: Brill
The prison officer as a sadistic ‘warder’ is an all-too-familiar figure, not just in the British literary and cultural imagination. Even with regard to the modern prison environment, officers are still frequently conflated with the jailers of the ‘old prison’, trailing the smell of the dungeon behind them; they function as scapegoats in compensation for society’s guilty conscience towards the imprisoned, or they are utilised in fiction geared towards prison reform.
The present book contests prison officers’ misrepresentation by drawing attention to counter-discursive examples. Deploying and developing spatial and cognitive narratological frameworks, it examines prison literature that lends a voice to prison officers and/or grants them a complex fictional representation. A general history of prison literature prepares the ground for the discussion not only of contemporary prison officer memoirs, but also of fictional works by Brendan Behan, Allan Guthrie and Louise Dean.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Deconstructing the Stereotype: History and Theoretical Framework
2. The ‘Warder’ Writes Back: Prison Officer Memoirs
3. Voice-ing the Prison Officer
Conclusion and Outlook
Works Cited
Index
