Auli Ek

Race and Masculinity in Contemporary American Prison Novels

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how contemporary American prison narratives reflect and produce ideologies of masculinity in the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9780415651271
• ISBN-10: 0415651271
• Artikelnr.: 36540470

Autorenporträt

Auli Ek is currently a lecturer in the UC Santa Barbara Writing Program. She is the recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies American Studies Program Fellowship in 1994-95 and the Academy of Finland Fellowship in 1995-1999. Her research interests include African American literature and film, Chicano/a literature, women's literature, and interdisciplinary approaches to race, gender, class, and sexuality in contemporary American cultural texts.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Representing Criminals: An Introduction Chapter One The
Future of Imprisonment: Contemporary Science Fiction and Documentary Film
Chapter Two African American Prison Autobiography: From Racial to Sexual
Politics Chapter Three Divide and Conquer: Racialized Hierarchies in the
Contemporary Prison Novel Chapter Four Surveillance and Prisoner Identity:
Imprisoned Bodies as the American Other Epilogue: Global Effects of U.S.
Discourses of Imprisonment Notes Bibliography Index