... Contemporary American Crime Fiction. By Hans Bertens and Theo D’haen. New York: Palgrave. 2001. ix, 233 pp. $62.00. Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction. By Maureen T. Reddy. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2003. viii, 213 pp. Cloth, $56.00; paper, $19.00. The Street...

...Paul Grimstad The African American Experience in Crime Fiction: A Critical Study . By Crafton Robert E. . Jefferson, NC : McFarland . 2015 . 204 pp. Paper , $29.95 . The Arresting Eye: Race and the Anxiety of Detection . By Huh Jinny . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia...

...- gorization Toomer’s metaphorical bee allegorically points to the tensions that define the quest to locate such an unfolding speaking subject. In Authentic Blackness, Favor profiles these tensions in brilliant relief. Adam Hotek, University of Pennsylvania Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction...

.... xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95. These three books explore, in very different ways, the relation between crime fact and crime fiction...

...Jamin Creed Rowan Abstract This essay suggests that hard-boiled crime fiction in the United States has developed the kind of “deep infrastructural ethic” that John Durham Peters says is present in much modern thought. The essay attempts to illuminate the genre’s infrastructural ethic and its...

...Todd Barosky Abstract This article examines the US Secret Service, a federal agency created during the Civil War to protect the greenback against counterfeiters, and its literary origins. It explores an overlooked chapter in the history of American crime and detective fiction, one that has special...

... and characters that deal heavily with “race and gender,” in order to illuminate V. ’s evolution as well as the nature and context of Pynchon’s historical fiction. The Place It Was Done: Location and Community in Contemporary American and British Crime Fiction . By Šárka Bubíková and Olga Roebuck...

.... xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95. These three books explore, in very different ways, the relation between crime fact and crime fiction...

.... xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95. These three books explore, in very different ways, the relation between crime fact and crime fiction...

.... xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95. These three books explore, in very different ways, the relation between crime fact and crime fiction...

.... xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95. These three books explore, in very different ways, the relation between crime fact and crime fiction...

.... xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95. These three books explore, in very different ways, the relation between crime fact and crime fiction...

.... xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95. These three books explore, in very different ways, the relation between crime fact and crime fiction...

.... xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95. These three books explore, in very different ways, the relation between crime fact and crime fiction...

.... xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95. These three books explore, in very different ways, the relation between crime fact and crime fiction...

... : Cambridge Univ. Press . McCann Sean . 2000 . Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Nietzsche Friedrich . (1908) 1911 . Ecce Homo . Translated by Ludovici Anthony M. . New York : Macmillan...

...Susan Louise Edmunds This essay reads Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) against Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), the New Deal, and the intervening history of white women’s sentimental activism. It argues that Native Son is a work of domestic fiction that self-consciously engages...

..., the midcentury hard-boiled style I am tracing developed out of the one we find in classic US crime fiction of the 1920s and 1930s. Much of the best scholarship on classic hard-boiled detective fiction has emphasized how the labor of detection bears a metaphorical relationship to the working practices of its...

... legacy in contemporary crime fiction. Neo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow . Ed. Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young. Champaign: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2018. xvii, 274 pp. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $28.00; e-book, $25.20. This anthology aims to articulate a theory of “neo...

... marginalized lived experience. In a series of adept readings, Robbins traces engagements with crime fiction in Stein’s Blood on the Dining Room Floor (written in 1933 and published posthumously) and Laura Mullen’s Murmur (2007), and with noir fiction and film in Notley’s postlyric/epic/narrative long poem...