The Arresting Eye : Race and the Anxiety of Detection /
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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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2015.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.