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Dreams for Dead Bodies : Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction /

Dreams of Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and Detective Fiction in American Literature argues that the detective genre's lineage lies in unexpected texts: experimental works on the margins of what we recognize as classical detective fiction today. It shows that authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Mark...

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Autor principal: Robinson, Michelle, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction: The original plotmaker -- Reverse type -- The art of framing lies -- To have been possessed -- The great work remaining before us -- Prescription: Homicide? -- Conclusion: dream within a dream. 
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