Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film
Peter Caster.
- 1 online resource (xx, 279 p.) : ill. ;
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-272) and index.
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.
Open Access
9780814271902 0814271901
Executions and executioners in literature. American literature--Film adaptations. Motion pictures and literature--United States. African Americans--Race identity. Masculinity in motion pictures. Masculinity in literature. Imprisonment in motion pictures. American literature--History and criticism.--20th century Imprisonment in literature.