Books, Bodies, and the Bars that Bind Them: A Bibliographic Approach to Prison Writing

书籍、身体和束缚它们的酒吧：监狱写作的书目方法

• 批准号: 2739955
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2739955
• 关键词: Books; Bodies; Bars; Bind; Them

In 1975, Michel Foucault famously stated that by the end of the eighteenth century 'the body as a major target of penal repression disappeared'. My proposed doctoral research contests Foucault's essential point. When we study prison texts, I argue, we find that bodies - bibliographic, biopolitical, and otherwise - remain central to ongoing modes of repression and coercion - and constitute a locus of resistance to those same instruments of domination. My research willexplore the convergences and contrasts between prison texts, revealing the specificity of the prison text - texts which operate within and between various spaces; bodily, stylistic, temporal, geographic. This project takes carceral texts as its focus. But, as I take it, carceral texts provide an emblematic case study through which to think more broadly about the relationship between bodies and books. The very production and reception of prison texts are contingent on thecorporeal confinement of the writer behind bars. Through considering a genre which is inherently entangled with embodied experience, I go on to ask: what might the processes of circulation, translation, editorial intervention, and facilitation in the context of carceral output teach us about the politics of books in other contexts?

1975 年，米歇尔·福柯 (Michel Foucault) 提出了一句著名的言论：到 18 世纪末，“作为刑罚镇压主要目标的身体已经消失”。我提出的博士研究与福柯的基本观点相悖。我认为，当我们研究监狱文本时，我们发现身体——书目、生命政治等——仍然是持续镇压和胁迫模式的核心——并构成了对这些统治工具的抵抗场所。我的研究将探索监狱文本之间的趋同和对比，揭示监狱文本的特殊性——在不同空间之内和之间运作的文本；身体的、风格的、时间的、地理的。该项目以监狱文本为重点。但是，在我看来，监狱文本提供了一个标志性的案例研究，通过它可以更广泛地思考身体和书籍之间的关系。监狱文本的产生和接受取决于作者在监狱中的肉体监禁。通过考虑一种本质上与具体经验纠缠在一起的体裁，我继续问：在监狱输出的背景下，流通、翻译、编辑干预和便利的过程可以教会我们什么关于其他背景下的书籍政治？