Race and Masculinity in Contemporary American Prison Novels (Hardcover)

Prison narratives are an invaluable source for the study of minority positions or discourses of otherness in US culture. Particularly in the discourses of the US criminal justice system, politics and the visual media, criminals are represented as the other, from the perspectives of race, sexuality and moral inferiority. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this compelling study analyzes how American prison narratives reflect and produce ideologies of masculinity in the United States. For the first time, this book puts various subgenres of prison narratives into a dialogue in order to demonstrate a polar dichotomy in the institutional and public discourses of criminality. It draws together fascinating materials that have rarely, if ever, received careful attention and examines popular culture to demonstrate the profound ways in which implicit understandings of prison life shape all Americans, and their reactions to people both incarcerated and not.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in African American History and Culture
Release date:	July 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	Auli Ek
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	158
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-97570-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > Prisons
LSN:	0-415-97570-0
Barcode:	9780415975704

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