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Prisons, race, and masculinity in twentieth-century U.S. literature and film
- Title
- Prisons, race, and masculinity in twentieth-century U.S. literature and film / Peter Caster.
- Author
- Caster, Peter, 1972-
- Publication
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2008.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xx, 279 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Black performance and cultural criticism
- Alternative Title
- Prisons, race and masculinity in twentieth-century United States literature and film
- Subject
- Imprisonment in literature
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Imprisonment in motion pictures
- Masculinity in literature
- Masculinity in motion pictures
- African Americans > Race identity
- Motion pictures and literature > United States
- American literature > Film and video adaptations
- Executions and executioners in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-272) and index.
- Contents
- Imprisonment in U.S. history and the cultural imagination -- Literary execution: race, crime, and punishment in three Faulkner novels -- Soul on ice, schizoanalysis, and the subject of imprisonment -- The executioner's song and the narration of history -- The contradictions of documentary realism in American history X -- "Based upon a true story": the hurricane and the problem of prison redemption -- The farm: "This is no dream or nothing made up, this is for real" -- Staging prisons and the performance of history.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-3183
- ISBN
- 9780814210734 (alk. paper)
- 0814210732 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007034428
- OCLC
- 167500676
- Author
- Caster, Peter, 1972-
- Title
- Prisons, race, and masculinity in twentieth-century U.S. literature and film / Peter Caster.
- Imprint
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2008.
- Series
- Black performance and cultural criticism
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-272) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-3183Sc E 09-40