The Only Way Out: The Racial and Sexual Performance of Escape

by Katherine Brewer Ball

In The Only Way Out, Katherine Brewer Ball explores the American fascination with the escape story. Brewer Ball argues that escape is a key site for exploring American conceptions of freedom and constraint. Stories of escape are never told just once but become mythic in their episodic iterations, revealing the fantasies and desires of society, the storyteller, and the listener. While white escape narratives have typically been laden with Enlightenment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478026049
• ISBN13: 9781478026044
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"