The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir by M. Abbott

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

M. Abbott

246 pages • hardcover • 2002

3 editions

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This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of Nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure re-emerges in 1930-50s America as the 'tough guy'. The S...

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