Cruel and Unusual
Punishment and U.S. Culture
From the excesses of Puritan patriarchs to the barbarism of slavery and on into the prison-industrial complex, punishment in the US has a long and gruesome history. In the post-Vietnam era, the prison population has increased tenfold and the death penalty has enjoyed a renaissance. Cruel and Unusual offers an exploration of the history of punishment as mediated in American culture. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, psychoanalysis and Foucault's influential work on discipline, Brian Jarvis examines a range of cultural texts, from seventeenth century execution sermons to twenty-first century prison films, to unc…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7453-1538-6
- EAN: 9780745315386
- Produktnummer: 1511376
- Verlag: Pluto Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.7 cm 398 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 398
Über den Autor
Brian Jarvis lectures in American Literature at Loughborough University. This is his first book.
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