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.…mehr
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.
John Cullen Gruesser is a Senior Research Scholar at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Manipulation, Malleability and Metäction in American Detection One "Having defeated him in his own castle": Character Rivalry, Authorial Sleight of Hand and Generic Fluidity in Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin Tales Twö Expanding on Poe: Varieties of Detection in Key American Literary Texts, 1850-1882 Three Subverting and Re-Entrenching Traditional Gender Roles: Female Sleuths, Dangerous Women and the Imperial Origins of Hard-Boiled Fiction Four Detecting Empire Abroad and at Home: Interrogations of United States Overseas Expansion and Jim Crow in Early African American Detective Writing Coda: Black Freedom, Mythic Heroism and Hard-Boiled Motherhood in Contemporary American Detective Fiction Appendix: Interviews with Valerie Wilson Wesley (May 2003, January and February 2013) Chapter Notes Works Cited Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Manipulation, Malleability and Metäction in American Detection One "Having defeated him in his own castle": Character Rivalry, Authorial Sleight of Hand and Generic Fluidity in Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin Tales Twö Expanding on Poe: Varieties of Detection in Key American Literary Texts, 1850-1882 Three Subverting and Re-Entrenching Traditional Gender Roles: Female Sleuths, Dangerous Women and the Imperial Origins of Hard-Boiled Fiction Four Detecting Empire Abroad and at Home: Interrogations of United States Overseas Expansion and Jim Crow in Early African American Detective Writing Coda: Black Freedom, Mythic Heroism and Hard-Boiled Motherhood in Contemporary American Detective Fiction Appendix: Interviews with Valerie Wilson Wesley (May 2003, January and February 2013) Chapter Notes Works Cited Index
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