Books by Brian Jarvis

Time Travel Is Real? For Brian, the "Time Traveling Hippie Surfer", Time Travel is pure fact! It turns out that the exact center of "Time the Universe and All Things" is a Yellow Pole that sits about a mile or so behind his house in the coastal pine forest of North Carolina. Our narrator, "Brian" is living in the year 1974, until he stumbles upon the Yellow Pole, the Dome of Time and the Keeper of Time , "Carl the First". Carl takes him 65,000,000 years back in time to watch the prehistoric dinosaurs. That Time Trip changed Brian''s world forever; he begins his new life as a "Time Traveler". Sandra is the only other time traveler in the universe. She is the perfect "California Surfer Girl", a tall tan blonde who can't resist "Zapping" around in time with the "Boys". This fantastic odyssey is narrated by the Hippie Surfer Dude riding the Cosmic Waves of Time.

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. *BR**BR*In the post-Vietnam era, the prison population has increased tenfold and the death penalty has enjoyed a renaissance. Cruel and Unusual offers an exploration of the history of punishment as 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. *BR**BR*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.