The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir by Megan Abbott
The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir
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Megan Abbott
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The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir

Megan Abbott

255 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history mystery race dark mysterious slow-paced
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This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of Nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure re-emerges in 1930-50s America as the 'tough guy'. The S...

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