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Unsettling the Prison: Language as Abolitionist Praxis.
Unsettling the Prison: Language as Abolitionist Praxis.
Unsettling the Prison: Language as Abolitionist Praxis.

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 학위논문(국외)
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Unsettling the Prison: Language as Abolitionist Praxis.
발행, 배포, 간사 사항  
발행, 배포, 간사 사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses , 2025
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    87 p.
    일반주기  
    Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-04, Section: A.
    일반주기  
    Advisor: McGlazer, Ramsey;McLaughlin, Mairi.
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    Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2025.
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    요약In Unsettling the Prison: Language as Abolitionist Praxis, I explore the relationship between language and space-how they constitute and contest one another. Following Foucault, we know that incarceration is at once disciplinary and individualizing. It is designed to sever social relations and keep the body under constant surveillance. For those confined to its cells, carceral space acts as an oppressive material force. It is a tool often embedded within neocolonial logics, and designed to preserve racial, gender, class, and linguistic hierarchies. In her 2022 volume, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation, Ruth Wilson Gilmore outlines the concept of "abolition geography," which she defines as carceral geography's antagonistic contradiction. Whereas carceral geography accounts for the broad-reaching spatial, human, and environmental impacts of the prison, abolition geography accounts for the broad-reaching spatial, human, and environmental resistances to the same. At the end of the essay she writes, "Ordinary people, in changing diversity, figure out how to stretch or diminish social and spatial forms to create room for their lives. Signs and traces of abolition geographies abound, even in their fragility" (Gilmore, Abolition 520). It's with this in mind that I approach the language and literature of the prison. I'm interested in what currently and formerly incarcerated people do to the prison as a social and spatial form-how they stretch it, diminish it, or unsettle it-through their linguistic and literary practices. In my dissertation, I search the prison novel and prison space for traces of anti-carceral resistance. Specifically, I think about how the incarcerated present a counter-discourse-how they stage a protest against the prison.The first chapter is titled "Un livre charge de fleurs, una isla desierta: Queer Carceral Utopias in Jean Genet and Manuel Puig." and treats utopic constructions of the prison cell in literature. Through the interleaving of memories and metatextual reflections on writing from prison, Genet's Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs (1948) posits the prison cell as a queer, communitarian space that muddies present, past and future. It is both a space of memory and of destiny. El beso de la mujer arana (1976) recounts the interactions of two incarcerated individuals, one a leftist militant and the other a queer window dresser, sharing a prison cell in mid-1970's Argentina. The reasons for their incarceration are as radically different as the social circles they come from. However, their differences give way to curiosities, which give way to intimacy and the sense of a shared future together. "Una isla desierta" and "ma tendre amie." These are two ways that the prison cell is described in Puig and Genet's texts, respectively. Knowing the prison to be a violent space, both materially and psychologically, this chapter asks why the cell is described in these ways? In his 2006 work Forced Passages, Dylan Rodriguez argues that the state produces "the categorical 'prisoner' through an ontology of civil and social death," fully cut off by the prison walls not just physically, but metaphysically as well (79). He goes on: "Imprisoned people are the regime's durable nonhumans, to the extent that they are seen as bodies that have been judicially (that is, officially and formally) emptied of their presumptive political and social subjectivity" (80). He later rearticulates this point more plainly and more forcefully, stating "the fundamental logic of punitive incarceration is the institutionalized killing of the subject" (85). In this chapter, I argue that both Puig and Genet recognize the aesthetic and political stakes of carceral subject's social death, and this recognition is central to their choice to tell a story of queer utopia from the prison cell. Put differently, the social death inherent in a carceral existence is posited as liberating for those whose free participation in social life was never really an option. The decomposition of the civil "straight" subject is taken as the basis of a new queer subjectivity that the prison cell as a literary setting makes possible.The second chapter is titled"The Polyphonic Prison: Hidden Multilingualism in Jose Maria Arguedas and Jose Luandino Vieira" and it explores the literary prison and its multilingual subjects inArguedas' El Sexto (1961) and Vieira's Luuanda (1963). Both authors experienced incarceration early in their lives and both go on to explore the political and aesthetic significance of this experience in their literary output. Containing a population produced through displacement and forced migration, the prison becomes a remarkably multilingual setting. It is this sociolinguistic environment that both authors inhabited that came to inspire their work. Though at first glance monolingual, these novels each contain traces of what Jana-Katherina Mende calls "hidden multilingualism," which refers to when the "multilingual surroundings and daily multilingual interactions of the authors influence their writing, causing multilingual interference with and in the texts" (297). The largely monolingual pages of the narratives clash with the polyphonic environment of the prison and multilingual lives that inhabit it. As carceral space in the two novels is constructed through the Spanish and Portuguese languages, marginalized languages, in these cases Quechua and Kimbundu, are filled with counter-discursive power. Their presence in the novels has a destabilizing effect on carceral space and on the state power that upholds it. Within the text, these racialized linguistic practices unsettle the discursive, and sometimes even the material, contours of the prison.The third chapter is titled "The Literary Text in the Carceral Schoolscape" and approaches works of literature in prison from a sociolinguistic perspective. It aims to situate the act of prison writing in its linguistic and material contexts. The chapter outlines and lays the theoretical foundations for a prospective study of the prison linguistic landscape that would be carried out at a future date. This study would treat the literary text-the embodied act of writing done by incarcerated intellectuals-as a form of intervention in the linguistic landscape. I hypothesize that these literary works produced in the carceral environment enter into conversation with other signs in the linguistic landscape (such as those made by prison authorities) and act either complimentarily or counter-discursively to the ideologies that those other signs index. A study of this nature would build upon calls in the existing research for more multi-modal linguistic landscape data that thinks beyond the classic form of the sign. Framing the linguistic landscape in this manner would produce an important bridge between abolitionist work from literary and sociolinguistic perspectives. With Participatory Action Research (PAR) as a guiding principle, the study would see incarcerated writers playing a significant part in shaping the way that we study the space that they inhabit and form which they work every day. By approaching linguistic practices in prison interdisciplinarily, this dissertation seeks to encourage dialogue across fields, resulting in mutual enrichment. Thinking through the lens of Linguistic Landscape Studies allows us to situate literary representations of the prison in their sociolinguistic context, inviting a novel angle for studying the formal features on the page. We must consider how the prison novel carries traces of and participates in linguistic power structures in the prison. The study of humanistic material emanating from the incarcerated-from some of the most marginalized voices in society-necessitates a multiplicity of disciplinary angles to fully situate and understand it, and my dissertation contributes to this crucial effort.
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    University of California Berkeley Romance Languages & Literatures (French)
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      Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-04A.
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■520    ▼aIn  Unsettling  the  Prison:  Language  as  Abolitionist  Praxis,  I  explore  the  relationship  between  language  and  space-how  they  constitute  and  contest  one  another.  Following  Foucault,  we  know  that  incarceration  is  at  once  disciplinary  and  individualizing.  It  is  designed  to  sever  social  relations  and  keep  the  body  under  constant  surveillance.  For  those  confined  to  its  cells,  carceral  space  acts  as  an  oppressive  material  force.  It  is  a  tool  often  embedded  within  neocolonial  logics,  and  designed  to  preserve  racial,  gender,  class,  and  linguistic  hierarchies.  In  her  2022  volume,  Abolition  Geography:  Essays  Towards  Liberation,  Ruth  Wilson  Gilmore  outlines  the  concept  of  "abolition  geography,"  which  she  defines  as  carceral  geography's  antagonistic  contradiction.  Whereas  carceral  geography  accounts  for  the  broad-reaching  spatial,  human,  and  environmental  impacts  of  the  prison,  abolition  geography  accounts  for  the  broad-reaching  spatial,  human,  and  environmental  resistances  to  the  same.  At  the  end  of  the  essay  she  writes,  "Ordinary  people,  in  changing  diversity,  figure  out  how  to  stretch  or  diminish  social  and  spatial  forms  to  create  room  for  their  lives.  Signs  and  traces  of  abolition  geographies  abound,  even  in  their  fragility"  (Gilmore,  Abolition  520).  It's  with  this  in  mind  that  I  approach  the  language  and  literature  of  the  prison.  I'm  interested  in  what  currently  and  formerly  incarcerated  people  do  to  the  prison  as  a  social  and  spatial  form-how  they  stretch  it,  diminish  it,  or  unsettle  it-through  their  linguistic  and  literary  practices.  In  my  dissertation,  I  search  the  prison  novel  and  prison  space  for  traces  of  anti-carceral  resistance.  Specifically,  I  think  about  how  the  incarcerated  present  a  counter-discourse-how  they  stage  a  protest  against  the  prison.The  first  chapter  is  titled  "Un  livre  charge  de  fleurs,  una  isla  desierta:  Queer  Carceral  Utopias  in  Jean  Genet  and  Manuel  Puig."  and  treats  utopic  constructions  of  the  prison  cell  in  literature.  Through  the  interleaving  of  memories  and  metatextual  reflections  on  writing  from  prison,  Genet's  Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs  (1948)  posits  the  prison  cell  as  a  queer,  communitarian  space  that  muddies  present,  past  and  future.  It  is  both  a  space  of  memory  and  of  destiny.  El  beso  de  la  mujer  arana  (1976)  recounts  the  interactions  of  two  incarcerated  individuals,  one  a  leftist  militant  and  the  other  a  queer  window  dresser,  sharing  a  prison  cell  in  mid-1970's  Argentina.  The  reasons  for  their  incarceration  are  as  radically  different  as  the  social  circles  they  come  from.  However,  their  differences  give  way  to  curiosities,  which  give  way  to  intimacy  and  the  sense  of  a  shared  future  together.  "Una  isla  desierta"  and  "ma  tendre  amie."  These  are  two  ways  that  the  prison  cell  is  described  in  Puig  and  Genet's  texts,  respectively.  Knowing  the  prison  to  be  a  violent  space,  both  materially  and  psychologically,  this  chapter  asks  why  the  cell  is  described  in  these  ways?  In  his  2006  work  Forced  Passages,  Dylan  Rodriguez  argues  that  the  state  produces  "the  categorical  'prisoner'  through  an  ontology  of  civil  and  social  death,"  fully  cut  off  by  the  prison  walls  not  just  physically,  but  metaphysically  as  well  (79).  He  goes  on:  "Imprisoned  people  are  the  regime's  durable  nonhumans,  to  the  extent  that  they  are  seen  as  bodies  that  have  been  judicially  (that  is,  officially  and  formally)  emptied  of  their  presumptive  political  and  social  subjectivity"  (80).  He  later  rearticulates  this  point  more  plainly  and  more  forcefully,  stating  "the  fundamental  logic  of  punitive  incarceration  is  the  institutionalized  killing  of  the  subject"  (85).  In  this  chapter,  I  argue  that  both  Puig  and  Genet  recognize  the  aesthetic  and  political  stakes  of  carceral  subject's  social  death,  and  this  recognition  is  central  to  their  choice  to  tell  a  story  of  queer  utopia  from  the  prison  cell.  Put  differently,  the  social  death  inherent  in  a  carceral  existence  is  posited  as  liberating  for  those  whose  free  participation  in  social  life  was  never  really  an  option.  The  decomposition  of  the  civil  "straight"  subject  is  taken  as  the  basis  of  a  new  queer  subjectivity  that  the  prison  cell  as  a  literary  setting  makes  possible.The  second  chapter  is  titled"The  Polyphonic  Prison:  Hidden  Multilingualism  in  Jose  Maria  Arguedas  and  Jose  Luandino  Vieira"  and  it  explores  the  literary  prison  and  its  multilingual  subjects  inArguedas'  El  Sexto  (1961)  and  Vieira's  Luuanda  (1963).  Both  authors  experienced  incarceration  early  in  their  lives  and  both  go  on  to  explore  the  political  and  aesthetic  significance  of  this  experience  in  their  literary  output.  Containing  a  population  produced  through  displacement  and  forced  migration,  the  prison  becomes  a  remarkably  multilingual  setting.  It  is  this  sociolinguistic  environment  that  both  authors  inhabited  that  came  to  inspire  their  work.  Though  at  first  glance  monolingual,  these  novels  each  contain  traces  of  what  Jana-Katherina  Mende  calls  "hidden  multilingualism,"  which  refers  to  when  the  "multilingual  surroundings  and  daily  multilingual  interactions  of  the  authors  influence  their  writing,  causing  multilingual  interference  with  and  in  the  texts"  (297).  The  largely  monolingual  pages  of  the  narratives  clash  with  the  polyphonic  environment  of  the  prison  and  multilingual  lives  that  inhabit  it.  As  carceral  space  in  the  two  novels  is  constructed  through  the  Spanish  and  Portuguese  languages,  marginalized  languages,  in  these  cases  Quechua  and  Kimbundu,  are  filled  with  counter-discursive  power.  Their  presence  in  the  novels  has  a  destabilizing  effect  on  carceral  space  and  on  the  state  power  that  upholds  it.  Within  the  text,  these  racialized  linguistic  practices  unsettle  the  discursive,  and  sometimes  even  the  material,  contours  of  the  prison.The  third  chapter  is  titled  "The  Literary  Text  in  the  Carceral  Schoolscape"  and  approaches  works  of  literature  in  prison  from  a  sociolinguistic  perspective.  It  aims  to  situate  the  act  of  prison  writing  in  its  linguistic  and  material  contexts.  The  chapter  outlines  and  lays  the  theoretical  foundations  for  a  prospective  study  of  the  prison  linguistic  landscape  that  would  be  carried  out  at  a  future  date.  This  study  would  treat  the  literary  text-the  embodied  act  of  writing  done  by  incarcerated  intellectuals-as  a  form  of  intervention  in  the  linguistic  landscape.  I  hypothesize  that  these  literary  works  produced  in  the  carceral  environment  enter  into  conversation  with  other  signs  in  the  linguistic  landscape  (such  as  those  made  by  prison  authorities)  and  act  either  complimentarily  or  counter-discursively  to  the  ideologies  that  those  other  signs  index.  A  study  of  this  nature  would  build  upon  calls  in  the  existing  research  for  more  multi-modal  linguistic  landscape  data  that  thinks  beyond  the  classic  form  of  the  sign.  Framing  the  linguistic  landscape  in  this  manner  would  produce  an  important  bridge  between  abolitionist  work  from  literary  and  sociolinguistic  perspectives.  With  Participatory  Action  Research  (PAR)  as  a  guiding  principle,  the  study  would  see  incarcerated  writers  playing  a  significant  part  in  shaping  the  way  that  we  study  the  space  that  they  inhabit  and  form  which  they  work  every  day. By  approaching  linguistic  practices  in  prison  interdisciplinarily,  this  dissertation  seeks  to  encourage  dialogue  across  fields,  resulting  in  mutual  enrichment.  Thinking  through  the  lens  of  Linguistic  Landscape  Studies  allows  us  to  situate  literary  representations  of  the  prison  in  their  sociolinguistic  context,  inviting  a  novel  angle  for  studying  the  formal  features  on  the  page.  We  must  consider  how  the  prison  novel  carries  traces  of  and  participates  in  linguistic  power  structures  in  the  prison.  The  study  of  humanistic  material  emanating  from  the  incarcerated-from  some  of  the  most  marginalized  voices  in  society-necessitates  a  multiplicity  of  disciplinary  angles  to  fully  situate  and  understand  it,  and  my  dissertation  contributes  to  this  crucial  effort.
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