Prisons, race, and masculinity in twentieth-century U.S. literature and film

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Imprisonment in literatureAmerican 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
Issue Date:
2008Metadata
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The Ohio State University PressSeries/Report no.:
Black Performance and Cultural CriticismDescription:
(print) xx, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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
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Item embargoed for five years
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BookISBN:
9780814210734 (print)Other Identifiers:
OCLC #167500676 (print)LCCN 2007034428 (print)
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