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...
Prison narratives are an invaluable source for the study of minority positions or discourses of otherness in US culture. Particularly in the discourse...
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.
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this study analyses how American prison narratives reflect and produce ideologies of race and masculinity in t...
