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The arresting eye : race and the anxiety of detection / Jinny Huh.
Van Pelt Library PS169.P35 H84 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huh, Jinny, 1968- author.
- Series:
- Cultural frames, framing culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Passing (Identity) in literature.
- Race awareness--United States.
- Race awareness.
- United States.
- Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- African Americans.
- Asian Americans--Race identity.
- Asian Americans.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- 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 not only in detective fiction (from Sherlock Holmes and Charlie Chan to the works of Pauline Hopkins) but also in narratives centered on detection itself (such as Winnifred Eaton's rhetoric of undetection in her Japanese romances). In explicating the literary depictions of race-detection anxiety, Huh demonstrates how cultural, legal, and scientific discourses across diverse racial groups were also struggling with demands for racial decipherability. Anxieties of detection and undetection, she concludes, are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent on each other's construction and formation in American history and culture. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Whispers of Norbury: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Modernist Crisis of Racial (Un)Detection 23
- 2 Intuitive Faculties and Racial Clairvoyance: Pauline Hopkins and the Emergence of Multiethnic Detective Fiction 53
- 3 Detecting Winnifred Eaton 83
- 4 Jaundiced Eyes: Charlie Chan and the Mysterious Disappearance of a Detective Hero 104
- 5 Race Detection in a Color-Blind Era: Musings on the New Millennium 144.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813937014
- 0813937019
- 9780813937021
- 0813937027
- OCLC:
- 892620378
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