The carceral, as Monika Fludernik had first observed in 1999, pervades our world, not only in the form of material sites of incarceration, but also in the metaphors we deploy in everyday conversation and in various text forms, including fictional and non-fictional narrative representations in different media and genres. In Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy (2019), the culmination of twenty years of work on the subject, Fludernik reiterates her 2005 definition of two main types of carceral metaphors: “prison is x” – describing and making sense of the prison and experiences of imprisonment; and “x is prison” – conceiving of other aspects of the social world in terms of incarceration (2019: 46).