Download or read book Race and Masculinity in Contemporary American Prison Novels written by Auli Ek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.