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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455689903321

Autore

Forter Greg

Titolo

Murdering masculinities [[electronic resource] ] : fantasies of gender and violence in the American crime novel / / Greg Forter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8147-2871-5

0-8147-2818-9

0-585-42491-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

Sexual cultures

Disciplina

813/.087209353

Soggetti

Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism

Psychoanalysis and literature - United States - History - 20th century

American fiction - Male authors - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Masculinity in literature

Criminals in literature

Violence in literature

Fantasy in literature

Crime in literature

Men in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Hardboiled Masochism: The Corpse in Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key; 2 Deadly Is the Female Animal: Smell in James Cain's Serenade; 3 The Apocalypse of Male Vision: Vomit in William Faulkner's Sanctuary; 4 The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You: Violent Voice in Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280; 5 The Waste of White Masculinity: Excrement in Chester Himes's Blind Man with a Pistol; Afterword; Notes; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Though American crime novels are often derided for containing misogynistic attitudes and limiting ideas of masculinity, Greg Forter maintains that they are instead psychologically complex and



sophisticated works that demand closer attention. Eschewing the synthetic methodologies of earlier work on crime fiction, Murdering Masculinities argues that the crime novel does not provide a consolidated and stable notion of masculinity. Rather, it demands that male readers take responsibility for the desires they project on to these novels. Forter examines the narrative strategies of five novels--Hamme