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Name: Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and U.S. Culture
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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. Review This wide-ranging and interdisciplinary survey constructs a geneaology of cruelty ... Cruel and Unusual unmasks a fundamental conflict between legends of liberty and the secret, silenced histories of sadomasochistic desire, punishment for profit and social control. Shocking and controversial, this study brings to mind the locked-down, sadistic menatl health facility in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It's not surprising that it took someone 'outside the box' to see clearly the contradiction in American culture (www.sirreadalot.org/issues/) About the Author Brian Jarvis lectures in American Literature at Loughborough University. This is his first book.

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Brand: Pluto Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0745315437
Category: Books > Subjects > Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Anthropology > Social & Cultural
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 20 January 2004
Listed Since: 14 February 2007

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