Prisons and Punishment in Texas Culture, History and Museological Representation / by Hannah Thurston.

This book explores the identity of Texas as a state with a large and severe penal system. It does so by assessing the narratives at work in Texas museums and tourist sites associated with prisons and punishment. In such cultural institutions, complex narratives are presented, which show celebratory...

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Main Author: Thurston, Hannah (Author)
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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Part I. Setting the Scene for Museological Research -- Chapter 1. The Significance of Stories in Museum Research -- Chapter 2. Becoming a Texas Tourist -- Chapter 3. Telling Tales About a 'Tough Texas' -- Part II. Representing Punishment in the United States of America -- Chapter 4. Emotionality and Cultural Stories of (In)justice -- Chapter 5. The Cultural Life of Punishment in the Southern States -- Chapter 6. Narrative Possibilities in Cultural Life Research -- Part III. The Punishment Museums of the Lone Star State -- Chapter 7. Museum Stories of a Distinctly Tough Texas -- Chapter 8. Depicting Modern Punishment as Civilised Punishment -- Chapter 9. A Narrative Journey Through Inmate Identities -- Part IV. The Texan Self-Identity Past and Present -- Chapter 10. 'Texanicity' and its Punishment Dimensions -- Chapter 11. Texan Toughness and Lone Star Memories: The Alamo and the Old West -- Chapter 12. Re-imaging Texas as a Place of Harsh Punishment -- Epilogue. 
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