scholarly journals "NOTHING is not really happening", a note on Anna Mendelssohn's prison writing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Thießen
Keyword(s):  
Prison Writing

Prison Writing

Complicities ◽  
2002 ◽  
pp. 131-158
Author(s):  
Mark Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Prison Writing

Reimagining Home: Redemption and Resistance in Hawai‘i Women’s Prison Writing

Signs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-227
Author(s):  
Leanne Trapedo Sims
Keyword(s):  
Prison Writing ◽  
Women's Prison

Jack Henry Abbott, American Prison Writing, and the Experience of Punishment

1983 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-460
Author(s):  
MICHAEL ISRAEL
Keyword(s):  
Data Base ◽  
Prison Writing ◽  
Maximum Security ◽  
Maximum Security Prison ◽  
American Prison

What the environment of prison does to its inhabitants can be better understood if we listen to the voices of men in prison, and the rise of the prison writer gives us a new and deeper data base for hypotheses to guide research. Jack Henry Abbott, as the best of these writers, raises disturbing questions about the functional utility of the maximum security prison. The most alarming suggestion of Abbott and others is that men being punished do not know why. No positive learning can derive from an experience so unreasonable, so lacking in compassion, as the realities of our prisons.

‘Io sono qui muto e solitario’: Giovannino Guareschi's prison writings, 1954–1955

Modern Italy ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-102
Author(s):  
Alan R. Perry
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Guilty Verdict ◽  
Prison Writing ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic

Giovannino Guareschi, author of the immensely popular Don Camillo stories and editor of the weekly newspaper Candido, spent 14 months in a Parma prison from 1954 to 1955 for having libelled the former Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi. To this day, he is the only Italian journalist since the founding of the Republic ever to have served actual, behind-bars jail time for libel. This study examines several aspects of Guareschi's life in prison – the ways he coped with boredom and loneliness, the attempts he made to understand his fellow inmates and how he defiantly tried to buoy his spirits. In particular, it focuses on both his correspondence with his wife Ennia, a collection of 44 letters, and his personal musings kept in two prison diaries – all documents that have never been published. The analysis rectifies common misinterpretations as to why Guareschi purposely refused to appeal his guilty verdict and chose to go to jail, considers how Guareschi presented himself in his writings and contemplates Guareschi's place in the history of Italian prison writing.

Writing Your Way to Freedom

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Coogan
Keyword(s):  
Writing Workshop ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Prison Writing ◽  
Autobiographical Writing

This chapter details how the use of a biography-based writing workshop helps imprisoned authors think about their pasts, reframe their presents, and construct new possible futures. It explores the deeper communication issues that structure narratives of criminality and violence but that also, when addressed truthfully, enable imprisoned men to begin to author new lives. The chapter contextualizes the men's autobiographies within the larger field of prison writing since the 1970s—particularly, the emergent genre of prison autobiography. The discussion is limited to work published by men primarily because the workshops examined here are filled with men. However, the process of crafting new selves via autobiographical writing is not inherently different for men and women any more than it is for black or white prisoners.

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