The arresting eye : race and the anxiety of detection

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In her reading of detective fiction and passing narratives from the end of the nineteenth century forward, Jinny Huh investigates anxieties about race and detection. Adopting an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, she examines the racial formations of African Americans and Asian Americans no...

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Main Author: Huh, Jinny, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
Series:Cultural frames, framing culture.
Subjects:
Passing (Identity) in literature.
Race awareness > United States.
Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism.
African Americans > Race identity.
Asian Americans > Race identity.
Asian Americans > Ethnic identity.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African Americans > Race identity
Asian Americans > Race identity
Detective and mystery stories, American
Passing (Identity) in literature
Race awareness
Ethnische Identität > Motiv
Kriminalroman
Rasse > Motiv
United States
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Front ; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; The Arresting Eye; Introduction; 1 / Whispers of Norbury: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Modernist Crisis of Racial (Un)Detection; 2 /Intuitive Faculties and Racial Clairvoyance: Pauline Hopkins and the Emergence of Multiethnic Detective Fiction; 3 /Detecting Winnifred Eaton; 4 /Jaundiced Eyes: The Case of Charlie Chan and the Mysterious Disappearance of a Detective Hero; 5 /Race Detection in a Color-Blind Era: Musings on the New Millennium; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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