Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution Fredriksson Tea
Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution Fredriksson Tea Through a study of ten commercially published prison autobiographies, Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison…
Specifikacia Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution Fredriksson Tea
Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution Fredriksson Tea
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