The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir

ISBN-13: 9781349387878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 246 str.

Megan E. Abbott; M. Abbott

Recenzje

'Although more revisionist than feminist, this book does damage to white boys.' - A. Hirsch, Choice

Spis treści

Introduction 'I Can Feel Her': The White Male as Hysteric in James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler 'Another Soft-Voiced Big Man I Had Strangely Liked': Containing White Male Desire The Woman in White: Race-ing and Erace-ing in Cain and Chandler 'Nothing You Can't Fix': Hardboiled Fiction's Hollywood Makeover 'The Strict Domain of Whitey': Chester Himes's Coup Epilogue Appendix Bibliography

O autorze

MEGAN ABBOTT is Assistant Professor of English at State University of New York-Oswego. She received her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University in 2000.