Haunting Prison
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Haunting Prison

Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution

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Haunting Prison

Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution

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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.

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Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Year
2023
ISBN
9781804553701
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Criminology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Chapter 1. Prison Imag(inari)es
  4. Chapter 2. Prison as an Abject (M)other
  5. Chapter 3. Subjective Abjection
  6. Chapter 4. The Haunting Prison
  7. Chapter 5. A Prison Chronotope
  8. Chapter 6. Prisons of Stone and Story
  9. Bibliography
  10. Index