Race, Gender and Empire in American Detective Fiction

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Television, Performing Arts
Cover of the book Race, Gender and Empire in American Detective Fiction by John Cullen Gruesser, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
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Author: John Cullen Gruesser ISBN: 9781476612744
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: August 29, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: John Cullen Gruesser
ISBN: 9781476612744
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: August 29, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

This book highlights detection’s malleability by analyzing the works of particular groups of authors from specific time periods written in response to other texts. It traces the roles that gender, race and empire have played in American detective fiction from Edgar Allan Poe’s works through the myriad variations upon them published before 1920 to hard-boiled fiction (the origins of which derive in part from turn-of-the-20th-century notions about gender, race and nationality), and it concludes with a discussion of contemporary mystery series with inner-city settings that address black male and female heroism.

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This book highlights detection’s malleability by analyzing the works of particular groups of authors from specific time periods written in response to other texts. It traces the roles that gender, race and empire have played in American detective fiction from Edgar Allan Poe’s works through the myriad variations upon them published before 1920 to hard-boiled fiction (the origins of which derive in part from turn-of-the-20th-century notions about gender, race and nationality), and it concludes with a discussion of contemporary mystery series with inner-city settings that address black male and female heroism.

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