2124 KB70 KB197820252018Petković, Danijelaštevilka:3letnik:41str. 115-139ISSN:0351-1189COBISSID:68654690URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-2E21KBJUenSlovensko društvo za primerjalno književnostPrimerjalna književnostangleška književnostirska književnostkaznovanjeknjiževnost in družbaO'Connor, Josephtelesna kazenteloviktorijanska dobaWaters, SarahzaporProblematizing leniency and panopticism| Victorian prison in neo-Victorian fiction and Discipline and Punish|The paper discusses Joseph O' Connor's 2002 novel, Star of the Sea, and Sarah Waters' Affinity (1999), in terms of their shared depiction of the Victorian prison, contra Foucault, as the space of corporal punishment and torture. The novels and the paper contextualize Victorian prisons within the nineteenth century discourses of progress, correction and reform, while simultaneously emphasizing the punitive and sadistic aspects of these fast-growing institutions. Detailing the organization of space; the architecture of surveillance; and the interpersonal power dynamics between the guards and the inmates, Star of the Sea and Affinity undermine the supposed humaneness of a prison sentence as a non-corporal, reformed and reforming, type of punishment - thus refusing, just like Discipline and Punish, to "sing the praises that the law needs". Yet O'Connor's and Waters' novels also problematize Foucault's notion of prison as the model of disciplinary society. Supported by contemporary research on Victorian penology and imprisonment and the nineteenth-century reports on prison life, the two novels demonstrate that it is (the threat of) the prison's monopolized violence rather than the internalized consciousness of surveillance that regulates both convicts and citizensČlanek analizira romana Morska zvezda Josepha O'Connorja (2002) in Naklonjenost Sarah Waters (1999) v sklopu prikaza viktorijanskega zapora - nasproti Foucaultu - kot prostora telesnega kaznovanja in mučenja. Romana in članek viktorijanski zapor umeščajo v diskurze 19. stoletja, ki že predvidevajo napredovanje, izboljšanje oziroma spreminjanje zapornika, a obenem poudarjajo tudi kaznovalne in sadistične vidike teh naglo rastočih ustanov. S podrobno prostorsko organizacijo, arhitektoniko nadzorovanja in medosebno dinamiko moči med pazniki in priprtimi Morska zvezda in Naklonjenost vzpostavljata distanco do domnevne humanosti zaporne kazni kot netelesnega, reformiranega in reformirajočega tipa kaznovanja ter tako kot Nadzorovanje in kaznovanje zavračata hvalospev tedanji zakonodaji. A romana poleg tega problematizirata tudi Foucaultovo pojmovanje zapora kot modela disciplinarnih družb. V sklicevanju na sodobne raziskave viktorijanske penologije in zaporov ter na poročila o zaporniškem življenju iz 19. stoletja romana demonstrirata, da je obsojence in državljane bolj kot ponotranjena zavest o nadzorovanju discipliniralo monopolizirano nasilje zaporov oziroma grožnja z njimTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaSlovensko društvo za primerjalno književnost