The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir [Hardcover]

Megan E. Abbott (Author)

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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (Dec 20 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312294816
ISBN-13: 978-0312294816
Product Dimensions: 22 x 15.1 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 408 g

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"Although more revisionist than feminist, this book does damage to white boys."--A. Hirsh, Choice

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This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of 19th-century frontier and western heroes, the figure reemerges in 1930s-’50s America as the “tough guy.” The Street Was Mine looks to 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 he negotiates racial and gender “otherness,” this study argues that the tough guy 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.

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IN 1953, SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY CALLED DASHIELL HAMMETT BEFORE a congressional subcommittee convened to investigate charges that so-called pro-communist books, including Hammett's, had been found in the State Department's overseas libraries. Read the first page

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