Prison Notes: An Introductory Study of Inmate Marginalia【翻译】

Hunter, Cody. Prison Notes: An Introductory Study of Inmate Marginalia. Master of Arts (English Literature), December 2015, 90 pp., 2 tables, 11 figures, references, 45 titles.
This thesis introduces the study of inmate marginalia as a method for understanding inmates’ uses of texts in prison libraries and for understanding the motivations for these uses. Marginalia are the notes, drawings, underlining, and other markings left by readers in the texts with which they interact. I use the examples of the Talmudic projects to set a precedent for the integration of marginal discourses into the central discourse of society. Next, I discuss the arguments surrounding the use of texts in prison libraries, including an outline for an ideal study of inmate marginalia. Finally, I discuss the findings of my on-site research at four prison libraries in Washington State. After scanning evidence of marginalia from forty-eight texts, a relatively small sample, I divided the marginalia by gender of facility, genre of text, address of the marginalia, and type of marginalia and found statistically significant correlations (p < 0.05) between gender and genre, gender and address, gender and type, and genre and type. However, while these correlations are statistically weak and require further investigation, the statistically significant correlations indicate the potential for integrating inmate marginalia studies into the scholarly discussions regarding inmates’ interactions with texts in prison.
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Copyrighted 2015
By
Cody Hunter
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ACKNOWLEGEMENTS
I cannot possibly express my gratitude to the United States prison library staff. Specifically, I thank Diane Walden for having faith in my project and for suggesting that I e-mail Laura Sherbo. The help I received from Diane and Laura is the reason that Chapter 4 of this thesis exists in its current form. Additionally, I thank Bob Fendler, Jose Mendoza, Anna Nash, and Jessica Aws for all of their help and for hosting my on-site studies. I would also like to thank Erin Boyington and Ladelle Williams for their encouragement and participation.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEGEMENTS………………………………………………………………………...iv
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES………...................................................................................v
Chapters
1.INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………...1
Judah………………………………………………………………………1
Marginalia, Prisons, and Power…………………………………………...6
Initiating the Study……………………………………………………….17
2.WHO DEFINES WHAT MARGINS?: PRISON INMATES, THE TALMUD,AND ESTABLISHING BOUNDARIES..............................................................24
3.INMATE MARGINALIA: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVEEVIDENCE OF INMATES’ INTERACTIONS WITH READING MATERIALS IN PRISON LIBRARIES.....…………….............................................................46
The Theoretical Basis………………………...………...………………..46
The Ideal Study…………………………………………………………..58
4.THE FINDINGS..………………………………………………………………..65
The Prisons……………………………………………………………….65
Statistical Results…………………………………………………….…..68
A Closer Look at Two Texts.......………………...………………………77
BIBLIOGRAPHY.…………………………………………………………………………….....85
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LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
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Table 1 Gender vs. Genre Percentages……………………………………………………..75
Table 2 Gender vs. Romance/Sexual Emphasis Texts Percentages………………………..76
Figure 1 Sample Talmud Page………………………………………………………………33
Figure 2 Gender vs. Genre Distributions……………………………………………………74
Figure 3 Gender vs. Underlining, etc………………………………………………………..78
Figure 4 Gender vs. Personal Notes…………………………………...………………….....79
Figure 5 Genre vs. Underlining, etc…………………………………………………………80
Figure 6 Gender vs. Address to Others……………………………………………………...80
Figure 7 Gender vs. Address to Author/Text………………………………………………..81
Figure 8 Sisters Declaration…………………………………………………………………82
Figure 9 Sisters Declaration pt. 2………………………...………………………………….83
Figure 10 Dark Thirst and Racial Notes……………………………………………………...84
Figure 11 Dark Thirst and Sexual Markings…………………………………………………84

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