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Place-ing the prison officer : the 'warder' in the British literary and cultural imagination /

The sadistic prison 'warder' is an all-too-familiar figure in the literary and cultural imagination of Britain and beyond. This book seeks to redress this misrepresentation of the prison officer by drawing attention to counter-discursive examples: deploying and developing spatial and cogni...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wächter, Cornelia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; New York, New York : Rodopi, 2014.
Colección:Spatial practices ; 21.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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520 |a The sadistic prison 'warder' is an all-too-familiar figure in the literary and cultural imagination of Britain and beyond. 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. 
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505 0 |a Place-ing the Prison Officer: The 'Warder' in the British Literary and Cultural Imagination; Copyright; The Spatial Practices Series; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Deconstructing the Stereotype: History and Theoretical Framework; 1.1. The Subject in/vs. the Institution; 1.2. The Institution and the Outside World: Conceptualising the Boundary; 1.3. Hypotheses on Exclusion and Contamination; 1.4. Stereotyping the Prison Officer: Theoretical Framework; 2. The 'Warder' Writes Back: Prison Officer Memoirs; 2.1. 'Turning Themselves In': Prison Officers in Liminal Space. 
505 8 |a 2.2. Heroes and Monsters Inmates: Hobbled Defenders of Humankind2.3. Siding with the Outlaw(ed): Dawkins and Chapman; 2.4. Concluding Comments; 3. Voice-ing the Prison Officer; 3.1. Theoretical Framework; 3.2. Releasing the Scapegoat: Brendan Behan's "The Quare Fellow"; 3.3. Crushed by the System: Allan Guthrie's Slammer; 3.4. Perspective Structures and the Deconstruction of Stereotypes: Louise Dean's This Human Season; Conclusion and Outlook; Works Cited; Index. 
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