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Prisons, race, and masculinity in twentieth-century U.S. literature and film / Peter Caster.
Van Pelt Library PS228.I66 C37 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caster, Peter, 1972-
- Series:
- Black performance and cultural criticism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imprisonment in literature.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Imprisonment in motion pictures.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Masculinity in motion pictures.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- African Americans.
- Motion pictures and literature--United States.
- Motion pictures and literature.
- United States.
- American literature--Film adaptations.
- Executions and executioners in literature.
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Prisons, race and masculinity in twentieth-century United States literature and film
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2008]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814210734
- 0814210732
- OCLC:
- 167500676
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