Dreams for Dead Bodies : Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction /

Dreams for Dead Bodies : Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction /

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Dreams of Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and Detective Fiction in American Literature argues that the detective genre's lineage lies in unexpected texts: experimental works on the margins of what we recognize as classical detective fiction today. It shows that authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Mark...

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Main Author: Robinson, Michelle, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Literature.
African Americans in literature.
Detective and mystery stories, American.
Slavery in literature.
Work in literature.
Working class in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Mystery & Detective.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Cultural studies.
Travail dans la litterature.
Esclavage dans la litterature.
Travailleurs dans la litterature.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The original plotmaker
  • Reverse type
  • The art of framing lies
  • To have been possessed
  • The great work remaining before us
  • Prescription: Homicide?
  • Conclusion: dream within a dream.

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