The Arresting Eye : Race and the Anxiety of Detection /

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In her reading of detective fiction and passing narratives from the end of the nineteenth century forward, Jinny Huh investigates anxieties about race and detection. Adopting an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, she examines the racial formations of African Americans and Asian Americans no...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Huh, Jinny, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Rasse > Motiv
Kriminalroman
Ethnische Identität > Motiv
Race awareness.
Passing (Identity) in literature.
Detective and mystery stories, American.
Asian Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > Race identity.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Americains d'origine asiatique > Identite ethnique.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique.
Conscience de race > États-Unis.
Passing (Identite) dans la litterature.
Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism.
Race awareness > United States.
USA.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front ; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; The Arresting Eye; Introduction; 1 / Whispers of Norbury: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Modernist Crisis of Racial (Un)Detection; 2 /Intuitive Faculties and Racial Clairvoyance: Pauline Hopkins and the Emergence of Multiethnic Detective Fiction; 3 /Detecting Winnifred Eaton; 4 /Jaundiced Eyes: The Case of Charlie Chan and the Mysterious Disappearance of a Detective Hero; 5 /Race Detection in a Color-Blind Era: Musings on the New Millennium; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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