Fiction From Prison

General Catalogue of the Books Except Fiction, French, and German, in the Public Library of Detroit, Mich

Race and Masculinity in Contemporary American Prison Novels

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how contemporary American prison narratives reflect and produce ideologies of masculinity in the United States, and in so doing, compellingly engages popular culture in order to demonstrate the profound ways in which implicit understandings of prison life shape all Americans, and their reactions to people both incarcerated and not.

Narrating the Prison: Role and Representation in Charles Dickens' Novels, Twentieth-Century Fiction, and Film