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9780822325802

Gumshoe America

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822325802

  • ISBN10:

    0822325802

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-11-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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Summary

"The secret history of American crime fiction doubles back to the 1920s and 1930s American left. The noir novelists of Sean McCann's shrewd and disturbing "Gumshoe America "devised a fierce, experimental pop-Modernism, an intransigent anti-popular strain within popular culture. McCann writes passionately, argumentatively, authoritatively, alert to both accomplishment and loss. Probably no prior study of American crime fiction is more entangled in the claims and contradictions of community, race, class, and politics."--Robert Polito, author of "Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson "

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Uncivil Society: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Idea of a Democratic Culture
Constructing Race Williams: The Klan and the Making of Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction
"Mystic Rigmarole": Dashiell Hammett and the Realist Critique of Liberalism
The Pulp Writer as Vanishing American: Raymond Chandler's Decentralist Imagination
Letdown Artists: Paperback Noir and the Procedural Republic
Tangibles: Chester Himes and the Slow Death of New Deal Populism
Conclusion: Beyond Us, Yet Ourselves
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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