Prisons, race, and masculinity in twentieth-century U.S. literature and film /
Caster, Peter,1972-
Columbus : Ohio State University Press,
c2008.
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.
Imprisonment in literature.
American literature
Imprisonment in motion pictures.
Masculinity in literature.
Masculinity in motion pictures.
African Americans
Motion pictures and literature
American literature
Executions and executioners in literature.