Murdering Masculinities

Murdering Masculinities
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9780814726914
ISBN-13 : 0814726917
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Download or read book Murdering Masculinities written by Greg Forter and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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