Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and U.S. CulturePluto Press, 2004 M01 20 - 287 páginas 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. Few subjects in contemporary US society provoke as much controversy as punishment. In this context, Cruel and Unusual aims to offer the first comprehensive exploration of the history of punishment as it has been 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 uncover the politics, economics and erotics of punishment. This wide-ranging and interdisciplinary survey constructs a genealogy of cruelty through close reading of novels by Hawthorne and Melville, fictional accounts of the Rosenberg execution by Coover and Doctorow, slave narratives and prison writings by African Americans and the critically neglected genre of American prison films. In the process, Cruel and Unusual unmasks a fundamental conflict between legends of liberty in the Land of the Free and the secret, silenced histories of sadomasochistic desire, punishment for profit and social control. |
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... independence and the Revolution furthered the fledgling Republic's sensitivity to the subject of punishment . In the War of Independence more Americans died as prisoners than were killed in combat . The British held rebels in ...
... independence and the Revolution furthered the fledgling Republic's sensitivity to the subject of punishment . In the War of Independence more Americans died as prisoners than were killed in combat . The British held rebels in ...
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... Independence in a public space . This might be read as a paradigmatic moment in the long history of punishment in North America . The mythology of the Land of the Free can be seen as an ideological smokescreen designed to obscure the ...
... Independence in a public space . This might be read as a paradigmatic moment in the long history of punishment in North America . The mythology of the Land of the Free can be seen as an ideological smokescreen designed to obscure the ...
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... independence , initiative , mobility , risk - taking , work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit . The prison film thus never descends to the ' Tartarus of Maids ' . The genre is incapable of representing prison as a specifically capitalist ...
... independence , initiative , mobility , risk - taking , work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit . The prison film thus never descends to the ' Tartarus of Maids ' . The genre is incapable of representing prison as a specifically capitalist ...
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The Birth of a Prison Nation | 1 |
The Scarlet Letter and the Long Forever of Puritan | 15 |
The Public Burning | 55 |
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