Framing the Penal Colony

Sophie Fuggle is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Studies and Cultural Heritage at Nottingham Trent University, UK, and teaches on the MA in Museum and Heritage Development programme.Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has published on a range of subjects, including travel writing, colonial history, postcolonial and world literature, and the memorialisation of slavery.Katharina Massing is Senior Kecturer at Nottingham Trent University, UK, and Course Leader of the MA in Museum and Heritage Development programme.

• Introduction; Charles Forsdick, Sophie Fuggle and Katharina Massing.- Part I. In the Archive: Text, Image, Object.- Chapter 1. Framing New Caledonia: Projection and Policing the bagne in Australia; Briony Neilson.- Chapter 2. ‘Dancing and discipline, frolics and felonies, punch and punishment, rum and reform’: Queen Victoria’s birthday Party, Norfolk Island Penal Station, 25 May 1840; John Moore.- Chapter 3. Seeing the penal colony through maps: the remains of the bagne in French Guiana and New Caledonia; Claire Reddleman.- Chapter 4. The Weather In the Archive: Material Residue and Guillotines on (in the?) Hold; Megan MacDonald.- Part II. Carceral Landscapes.- Chapter 5. The Life and Afterlife of the old Fængslet at Richmond, St Croix; Laura McAtackney.- Chapter 6. Framing the Tiger Cages: French and American Penal Spaces at Con Dao, Vietnam; Maryse Tennant.- Chapter 7. Walking and writing the penalcolony with Patti Smith; Samuel Tracol and Gloria Alhinho.- Chapter 8. Framing postcolonial narratives in the prison museum: The Qingdao German Prison Museum; Katharina Massing.- Chapter 9. Across the Abashiri River: The Prison and the Museum; Sophie Fuggle.- Part III. Reframing the penal colony.- Chapter 10. Sensationalised and didactic? Framing Dieudonné in Green Hell Guiana; Chantal Cointot.- Chapter 11. Graphic histories of incarceration: bagne and bande dessinée in New Caledonia; Charles Forsdick.- Chapter 12. Gaming the Penal Colony; Sophie Fuggle and Charles Forsdick.- Postface.