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Prison Narrative

Prison Narrative is a literary subgenre of Arabic political fiction that represents the systematic depiction of incarceration experiences under authoritarian regimes, distinguished by its focus on the individual’s confrontation with state violence, ideological repression, and collective resistance within institutional confinement.

197

Publications

6.8K

Citations

236

Authors

105

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

24

Parents

Publications

197

The Culture of Punishment: Prison, Society, and Spectacle

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 2010 · 290 citations

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Why God Is Often Found Behind Bars: Prison Conversions and the Crisis of Self-Narrative

Shadd Maruna, Louise Wilson, Kathryn Curran · Research in Human Development · 2006 · 218 citations

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Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England

Anne Digby, John Bender · The American Historical Review · 1989 · 197 citations

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Voices from S-21: terror and history in Pol Pot's secret prison

David P. Chandler · Choice Reviews Online · 2000 · 159 citations

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‘I’m very careful about that’: narrative and agency of men in prison

John P. McKendy · Discourse & Society · 2006 · 136 citations

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Authors

236

  1. JZ
    Jacqueline Z. Wilson

    Federation University, Australia

    4 publications · 127 citations

    4

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  2. PM
    Paul Mason

    University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 142 citations

    3

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  3. HB
    H. Bruce Franklin

    Stanford University, United States

    3 publications · 104 citations

    3

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  4. JB
    Jamie Bennett

    HM Prison Service, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 55 citations

    2

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  5. TU
    Thomas Ugelvik

    University of Oslo, Norway

    2 publications · 80 citations

    2

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1–5 of 236

Institutions

105

  1. University of Glasgow

    Glasgow, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    122 citations

  2. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    280 citations

  3. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    44 citations

  4. Birmingham City University

    Birmingham, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    114 citations

  5. The University of Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    48 citations

  6. Bar-Ilan University

    Ramat Gan, Israel

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    27 citations

  7. Monash University

    Melbourne, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    73 citations

  8. Federation University

    Ballarat, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    54 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 21 publications · 667 citations

    13

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  2. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews

    8 publications · 461 citations

    8

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  3. Punishment & Society

    6 publications · 347 citations

    6

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  4. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice

    5 publications · 173 citations

    5

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  5. The Prison Journal

    TPJ · 5 publications · 108 citations

    5

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