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Metaphors of Confinement - The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy (Hardcover)
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Metaphors of Confinement - The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy (Hardcover)
Series: Law and Literature
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Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy
offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed
in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from
Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described
as confining or restrictive. These imaginings coalesce into a
'carceral imaginary' that determines the way we think about
prisons, just as social debates about punishment and criminals feed
into the way carceral imaginary develops over time. Examining not
only English-language prose fiction but also poetry and drama from
the Middle Ages to postcolonial, particularly African, literature,
the book juxtaposes literary and non-literary contexts and
contrasts fictional and nonfictional representations of
(im)prison(ment) and discussions about the prison as institution
and experiential reality. It comments on present-day trends of
punitivity and foregrounds the ethical dimensions of penal
punishment. The main argument concerns the continuity of carceral
metaphors through the centuries despite historical developments
that included major shifts in policy (such as the invention of the
penitentiary). The study looks at selected carceral metaphors,
often from two complementary perspectives, such as the home as
prison or the prison as home, or the factory as prison and the
prison as factory. The case studies present particularly relevant
genres and texts that employ these metaphors, often from a
historical perspective that analyses development through different
periods.
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