Sentenced to death : the American novel and capital punishment / David Guest.
The criminal justice system in America is as powerful a shaper of history and society as its better-known counterparts - the military, politics, government, and technology. In a country that lacks a mandatory death sentence for specific crimes, the American strategy for execution proves to be based...
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Table of Contents:
- Power, narrative, and capital punishment
- Frank Norris's McTeague : Darwin and police power
- Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy : resistance, normalization, and deterrence
- Richard Wright's Native son : rhetorical determinism
- Truman Capote's In cold blood : the novel as prison
- Norman Mailer's The executioner's song : strategies of defiance.