Through a study of ten commercially published prison
autobiographies, Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject
and Uncanny Institution unveils how prison is narrativized and
socially represented as an abject and uncanny institution, shedding
new light on what prison is and does in Western carceral
imaginations. Unveiling the layers of editing that position prison
autobiographies between fact and fiction, Tea Fredriksson delves
into how true crime’s claims to factuality coexist with the
genre’s inescapable horror iconography. In a thematic analysis of
how autobiographical prison stories make prison ‘come alive’ on
the page as a site of abject horror and eerie unsettlement,
Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny
Institution explores how prison functions as a storied institution,
both as a physical site of subterranean horrors and in terms of the
many-layered stories told about prison and the bodies within it.
Showcasing how prison expresses and distills the normative social
anxieties of the global North-West and linking othering processes
and unsettling likenesses as common narrational themes, Fredriksson
reveals how prison is both an abject other to and a haunting,
uncanny double of the outside world. A refreshing take on the study
of true crime data, Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an
Abject and Uncanny Institution is appealing reading for scholars
interested in qualitative research methods for studying crime,
punishment and victimhood in popular culture.
General
| Imprint: |
Emerald Publishing Limited
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Emerald Studies in Culture, Criminal Justice and The Arts |
| Release date: |
April 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Tea Fredriksson
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
248 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-80455-369-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-80455-369-7 |
| Barcode: |
9781804553695 |
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