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While Dickens and other realists fancied society itself as one big prison and the latter as a microcosm of the former, a significant number of authors and movie directors closer to our time appear to buy into the notion of prison as “social necessity” and violent arena that retroactively legitimates our apprehensions and further shores up “consensus”around the dominant correctional mindset. For sure, these are all controversial problems of urgent interest inside and outside the academy. Narrating the Prison deals with them systematically, without preconceptions. Thoroughly researched, the book sheds refreshing light on prison literature and film.
Professor Christian Moraru
University of North Carolina, Greensboro