Race and Masculinity in Contemporary American Prison Novels

ISBN-13: 9780415651271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 158 str.

Auli Ek

Opis

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this study analyses how American prison narratives reflect and produce ideologies of race and masculinity in the United States. It examines popular culture to demonstrate the profound ways in which implicit understandings of prison life shape reactions and thoughts.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Auli Ek is currently a lecturer in the UC Santa Barbara Writing Program. She is the recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies American Studies Program Fellowship in 1994-95 and the Academy of Finland Fellowship in 1995-1999. Her research interests include African American literature and film, Chicano/a literature, women's literature, and interdisciplinary approaches to race, gender, class, and sexuality in contemporary American cultural texts.