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Murdering Masculinities - Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel

English · Paperback / Softback

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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--Hammett's "The Glass Key," Cain's "Serenade," Faulkner's "Sanctuary," Thompson's "Pop. 1280," and Himes's "Blind Man with a Pistol"--in conjunction with their treatment of bodily metaphors of smell, vision, and voice. In the process, Forter unearths a "generic unconscious" that reveals things Freud both discovered and sought to repress.


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Gregory Forter

Summary

American crime novels are often derided for containing misogynistic attitudes. This book argues that such novels are in fact psychologically complex and sophisticated works which demand that readers take responsibility for the images of masculinity that they project on to these works.

Product details

Authors Greg Forter, Gregory Forter, Drew Whitelegg
Publisher New York University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.11.2000
 
EAN 9780814726914
ISBN 978-0-8147-2691-4
No. of pages 278
Dimensions 150 mm x 227 mm x 17 mm
Weight 381 g
Series Sexual Cultures (Paperback)
Sexual Cultures
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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