A Stylistic Study Of Prison Narratives: A Critical Approach

Abstract

Prison Literature is one of the emerging genres of the world literature. The experience of imprisoning writers is since antiquity. There have been a number of writers who were put behind the bars due to different political, social, and religious reasons. But the confinement has only physically captivated them, their mind and imagination had pierced the high prison walls. There are many writers who were imprisoned in a solitary confinement, denied of reading and writing materials, even they were denied the open sun light, their window panes were smeared with paste, so that no light can enter their cells. But out of these critical conditions have emerged a large body of works and that have established the fact that one can imprison one’s body, however not soul, mind and imagination. There present study offers and presents briefly many of the world classical texts produced in prisons/ jails or hose arrest. The paper will try to establish the fact that the power of mind and imagination, which cannot be restrained even in incarceration. It will be helpful in developing the paradigms of prison literature, and how a writer can create beauty, hope etc. amid horrors and traumatic situations of prison environment.