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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 reemerges in 1930s-50s America as the "tough guy." The Street Was Mine looks at the tough guy in the works of hardboiled novelists Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) and James M. Cain (Double Indemnity) and their popular film noir adaptations.
Focusing on the way the tough guy negotiates racial and gender "otherness," this study argues that he embodies the promise of an impervious white masculinity amidst the turmoil of the Depression through the beginnings of the Cold War. The book concludes with an analysis of Chester Himes, whose Harlem crime novels (For Love of Imabelle) unleash a ferocious revisionary critique of the tough guy tradition."--BOOK JACKET.
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American Detective and mystery stories, American Noir fiction, City and town life in literature, City and town life in motion pictures, Detective and mystery films, Film noir, History and criticism, Masculinity in literature, Men in motion pictures, Men, White, in literature, Private investigators in literature, Race in literature, Men in literaturePlaces
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The street was mine: white masculinity in hardboiled fiction and film noir
2002, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
- 1st ed.
0312294816 9780312294816
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-238) and index.
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