Race and masculinity in contemporary American prison narratives
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Race and masculinity in contemporary American prison narratives
(Studies in African American history and culture)
Routledge, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-141) and index
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Description
This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how contemporary American prison narratives reflect and produce ideologies of masculinity in the United States, and in so doing, compellingly engages popular culture in order to demonstrate the profound ways in which implicit understandings of prison life shape all Americans, and their reactions to people both incarcerated and not.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Representing Criminals: An Introduction Chapter One The Future of Imprisonment: Contemporary Science Fiction and Documentary Film Chapter Two African American Prison Autobiography: From Racial to Sexual Politics Chapter Three Divide and Conquer: Racialized Hierarchies in the Contemporary Prison Novel Chapter Four Surveillance and Prisoner Identity: Imprisoned Bodies as the American Other Epilogue: Global Effects of U.S. Discourses of Imprisonment Notes Bibliography Index
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