Race and Masculinity in Contemporary American Prison Novels
by
Auli Ek
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in African American History and Culture
ISBN-10
0415975700
ISBN-13
9780415975704
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 14th, 2005
Print length
158 Pages
Weight
398 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 16.30 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Gender studies, gender groupsEthnic studiesPrisons
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Analyzes how American prison narratives reflect and produce ideologies of masculinity in the United States. 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.
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.
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