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Place-ing the Prison Officer
The âWarderâ in the British Literary and Cultural Imagination
Series: - Spatial Practices, Volume: 21
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The sadistic prison âwarderâ is an all-too-familiar figure in the literary and cultural imagination of Britain and beyond. This distorted image continues to be informed by the stereotypically oppressive gaolers of old â trailing the figurative stench of the dungeon behind them. Even today, prison officers can, for instance, function as scapegoats to compensate for societyâs guilty conscience or as fictional vehicles to promote prison reform.
This book seeks to redress this misrepresentation of the prison officer 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 review of traditional depictions of âwardersâ in classics of prison literature prepares the ground for the discussion of contemporary prison officer memoirs and the representation of officers in fictional works by Brendan Behan, Allan Guthrie and Louise Dean.
This book seeks to redress this misrepresentation of the prison officer 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 review of traditional depictions of âwardersâ in classics of prison literature prepares the ground for the discussion of contemporary prison officer memoirs and the representation of officers in fictional works by Brendan Behan, Allan Guthrie and Louise Dean.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Deconstructing the Stereotype: History and Theoretical Framework
2. The âWarderâ Writes Back: Prison Officer Memoirs
3. Voice-ing the Prison Officer
Conclusion and Outlook
Works Cited
Index
Introduction
1. Deconstructing the Stereotype: History and Theoretical Framework
2. The âWarderâ Writes Back: Prison Officer Memoirs
3. Voice-ing the Prison Officer
Conclusion and Outlook
Works Cited
Index