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

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.

A propos de l'auteur

Greg Forter teaches American Literature at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Greg Forter, Gregory Forter, Drew Whitelegg
• Edition: New York University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.11.2000
• EAN: 9780814726914
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-2691-4
• Pages: 278
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 227 mm x 17 mm
• Poids: 381 g
• Thèmes: Sexual Cultures (Paperback); Sexual Cultures
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques