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

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

Megan Abbott

256 pages 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 19th-century frontier and western heroes, the figure reemerges in 1930s-’50s America as the “tough guy.” The Street...

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