Murdering Masculinities : : Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel / / Gregory Forter.
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 c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2000] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sexual Cultures ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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