The Education of Infamous Men: Representations of Prison and school in Crítica (1933)
This paper analyzes a serie of notes published by the newspaper Crítica between July and August 1933 under the title “Hablan desde la cárcel los hijos de Martín Fierro”. In those, Crítica journalists interviewed inmates at the Viedma prison (Argentina) and offer to readers a particular representatio...
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Centro Universitario Regional Zona Atlántica - Universidad Nacional del Comahue - Argentin
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/Sociales/article/view/1581 |
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| Sumario: | This paper analyzes a serie of notes published by the newspaper Crítica between July and August 1933 under the title “Hablan desde la cárcel los hijos de Martín Fierro”. In those, Crítica journalists interviewed inmates at the Viedma prison (Argentina) and offer to readers a particular representation of the education and the life of prisoners behind the cells. All of this can be related with a series of changes in the sensitivity of the time. In these articles, the prisoners' life stories are organized discursively from various events (childhood, work, sentimental life), among which their educational experiences pay particular attention. We hypothesizes that those documents make visible the existence of mechanisms of the newspaper to establish a representation of the prison as a space for the rehabilitation of the inmates to social life. Apart from that, the investigation among the school education of convbicts is a key to mark a frontier between the kind of sensitivity that the newspaper wants to promote - civilized sensitivity - and another that still survives - barbaric sensitivity. |
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