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- English
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About this book
The arts - spanning the visual, design, performing, media, musical, and literary genres - constitute an alternative lens through which to understand state-sanctioned punishment and its place in public consciousness. Perhaps this is especially so in the case of imprisonment: its nature, its functions, and the ways in which these register in public perceptions and desires, have historically and to some extent inherently been intertwined with the arts. But the products of this intertwinement have by no means been constant or uniform. Indeed, just as exploring imprisonment and its public meanings through the lens of the arts may reveal hitherto obscured instances of social control within or outside prisons, so too it may uncover a rich and possibly inspirational archive of resistance to them. This edited collection sheds light both on state use of the arts for the purposes of controlling prisoners and the broader public, and the use made of the arts by prisoners and portions of the broader public as tools of resistance to penal states. The book also includes a number of chapters that address arts-in-prisons programmes, making distinctive contributions to the literature on their philosophy, formation, operation, effectiveness, and research evaluation, as well as taking care to explore the politics surrounding and underpinning these multiple themes.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Contributors
- The Arts of Imprisonment: An Introduction
- 1 Aesthetics and An-aesthetics: The Architecture of Incarceration
- 2 Telling Prison Stories: The Spectacle of Punishment and the Criminological Imagination
- 3 Victor Hugo and Octave Mirbeau: A Sociological Analysis of Imprisonment in Fiction
- 4 Masculinity, Violence, and Art in Tennessee Williamsā Not About Nightingales
- 5 Social Documentary in Prison: The Art of Catching the State in the Act of Punishment
- 6 Thug Life: Hip Hopās Curious Relationship with Criminal Justice
- 7 Art, Constraint and Memory: Egon Schiele in Prison
- 8 āThe haircutās on the houseā: Rebetika Songs and Greek Prisons
- 9 Art and Autonomy: Prison Writers under Siege
- 10 Prose and Cons: Autobiographical Writing by British Prisoners
- 11 Resistance or Propaganda, Self-Expression or Solipsism?: Prison Writing and the Red Army Faction Prisoners in West Germany, 1973ā77
- 12 āSafe Havensā: The Formation and Practice of Prison Choirs in the US
- 13 Teaching and Learning: The Pedagogy of Arts Education in Prison Settings
- 14 Comparing Art Therapy in Prisons to āArts-in-Correctionsā: Process to Product and Back Again
- 15 Creative Encounters: Whatever Happened to the Arts in Prisons?
- 16 Harmony Behind Bars: Evaluating the Therapeutic Potential of a Prison-based Music Programme
- 17 Awaiting Justice in South African Prisons: Performing Human Rights in a State of Exception
- Index