Prison cultures : performance, resistance, desire / Aylwyn Walsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walsh, Aylwyn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prison theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England ; Chicago, Illinois : Intellect, [2019]

Summary:

Prison Cultures offers the first systematic examination of women in prison and performances in and of the institution. Using a feminist approach to reach beyond tropes of 'bad girls' and simplistic inside vs. outside dynamics, it examines how cultural products can perpetuate or disrupt hegemonic understandings of the world of prisons. The book identifies how and why prison functions as a fixed field and postulates new ways of viewing performances in and of prison that trouble the institution, with a primary focus on the United Kingdom and examples from popular culture. A new contribution to the fields of feminist cultural criticism and prison studies, Aylwyn Walsh explores how the development of a theory of resistance and desire is central to the understanding of women's incarceration. It problematizes the prevalence of purely literary analysis or case studies that proffer particular models of arts practice as transformative of offending behaviour.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781789381061

1789381061

9781789381078

178938107X