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Following Allan Metcalf's suggestion, I am sending the following inquiry
to the ADS list serve. I will be pleased to receive your communications
on this dilemma. Joanne Spencer Kantrowitz, Ph.D., Chicago, 1967
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<td>Tue, 03 Apr 2001 20:02:27 -0500</td>
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<td>nathan & joanne kantrowitz <kant1@rcnchicago.com></td>
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<td>Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:52:31 -0600</td>
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<p>Dear Professor Metcalf,
<br>We have had the strange experience recently of meeting a prison language
research professor who had been searching for our study in vain.
That is/was <i>Stateville Names</i> which was cited by McDavid and Maurer
in their revision of Mencken, was supposed to be published by PADS around
1965 and then was shot down over fear of right-wing attack and threat to
the first federal grant forthcoming for Cassidy's dictionary. The Ms. was
the first full study of prison language as collected in Stateville Penitentiary
and, of necessity, contained much maladiction. The Ms. languished
with a small publisher who went defunct after losing tenure in the 70's.
In disgust, we laid the book aside.
<br>One portion of it was published by Alan Dundes in his <i>Mother Wit</i>
anthology. In other words, the work has been footnoted, listed in
bibliographies (?), but no one had access to it because it was never published.
Two copies exist in typescript: one is deposited with the papers
of David W. Maurer at the University of Louisville; the other is with the
Chicago Historical Society in the Stateville Papers of Nathan Kantrowitz.
<br>Whether this is worth posting on the web or listed with an on-demand
publisher, I haven't the slightest idea. Perhaps, for the sake of
future scholars (few though they may be), the locations of the ms. should
be published somewhere in the journals of ADS. What do you think
of that suggestion?
<br>Each of us went on to publish other sorts of things in other sorts
of media, but we never returned to the linguistic group after the deaths
of Raven and Dave who were our chief contacts and friends, albeit powerless
in the face of Cassidy's concerns. Do you by any chance have an e-mail
address for Alan Dundes? His book is still in print, but I would
like to correct his description of my work. (I was not a faculty
wife!). For a rather amusing essay detailing who we are, you might
consult Nathan Kantrowitz's
<br>1990 book, <i>Close Control</i>.
<br>Best wishes,
<p>Joanne Spencer Kantrowitz
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<br>MZ
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