EAN: 9781433102790

PRISON - JACQUELINE Z WILSON GEBUNDEN

Prison: Cultural Memory and Dark Tourism discusses decommissioned Australian prisons currently
or potentially functioning as tourist attractions. In particular  it addresses a fundamental
question: Do the interpretations and presentations of the sites include and fairly represent
the personal stories and experiences associated with those prisons? The author argues that the
conventional understanding of most of Australia's historical prisons fosters a radical
«othering» of inmates  and with it the exclusion  distortion and historical neglect of their
narratives. This book examines avenues via which neglected narratives may be glimpsed or
inferred  presenting a number of examples. This remedies the imbalance in some degree - and
tests such avenues' potential as resources for inclusive interpretations by public historians
and curators. The book also focuses on the influence of «celebrity prisoners»  whose links to
the penal system are exploited as promotional features by the sites and in some cases by the
individuals themselves. Their narratives provide broad  if unwitting  support for the system
and for the othering of the more general inmate population. The ramifications of the above with
regard to aspects of Australian identity mean that certain facets of the «Australian character»
traditionally held to be emblematic are affected. These effects have subtle but tangible
consequences for modern Australians' collective memory and deleterious consequences for current
popular attitudes to penal practice.

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