To Discipline and Publish: Scottsboro and Narratives of Delinquency |
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| Authors: | Karl Precoda Paulo S Polanah |
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| Institution: | (1) Theater and Cinema, Virginia Tech, 670 Mcbryde Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24062, USA;(2) Africana Studies/Sociology, Virginia Tech, 670 Mcbryde Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24062, USA |
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| Abstract: | With the economics of racism of the 1930s and 1950s American South in mind, our essay explores the relationship between the
act of writing and institutional penology. Taking an obscure, but visceral autobiographical account by Paterson and Conrad
(Scottsboro Boy, Garden City Doubleday, 1950), we examine how discipline, punishment, and institutional identity emerge out of publishing, or, as Foucault put it, “the
power of writing.” Narratives of delinquency born out of a racialized penal economy tend to resist attempts to tame the criminal,
making institutional survival a productive discourse, and its articulation, a unique revolutionary act.
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