Letteratura e carcere in America. Il caso Theo Padnos

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_12870
dc.title	Letteratura e carcere in America. Il caso Theo Padnos
dc.contributor.author	Clericuzio Alessandro
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2023/57/letteratura-e-carcere-in-america-il-caso-theo-padn/
dc.description.abstract	Theo Padnos published My Life Had Stood A Loaded Gun in 2004, when Prison Studies were burgeoning and gaining academic attention globally. Neglected by critics, the book relates the author's experience as literature instructor in an American prison. Engaging methods of pedagogical research and reader-response criticism, the paper investigates the role of literature in the cultural activities of young male inmates in a medium security jail in Vermont. An original amalgam of crime reports, pedagogy of literature, and autobiographical criticism, Padnos' study for the first time confronts young criminals with a literary canon dripping with violence. The experiment sheds light on the reading activities of prisoners, on their and the author's social background, and on the power of American literature to speak to marginal groups.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 57 \| Settembre 2023
dc.issued	2023-10-30
dc.dateAccepted	2023-06-01
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-03-23
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-1562
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2023/11/014
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Huckleberry Finn
dc.subject	Pedagogy
dc.subject	Prison libraries
dc.subject	Reader-response
dc.subject	Violence

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Alessandro Clericuzio Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italia

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Theo Padnos published My Life Had Stood A Loaded Gun in 2004, when Prison Studies were burgeoning and gaining academic attention globally. Neglected by critics, the book relates the author's experience as literature instructor in an American prison. Engaging methods of pedagogical research and reader-response criticism, the paper investigates the role of literature in the cultural activities of young male inmates in a medium security jail in Vermont. An original amalgam of crime reports, pedagogy of literature, and autobiographical criticism, Padnos' study for the first time confronts young criminals with a literary canon dripping with violence. The experiment sheds light on the reading activities of prisoners, on their and the author's social background, and on the power of American literature to speak to marginal groups.

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30 Ottobre 2023

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01 Giugno 2023

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23 Marzo 2023

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Keywords: Reader-response • Prison libraries • Violence • Huckleberry Finn • Pedagogy

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