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  title info:
    title: Dreams for dead bodies
    sub title: blackness, labor, and the corpus of American detective fiction
  name:
    name part: Robinson, Michelle
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction offers new arguments about the origins of detective fiction in the United States, tracing the lineage of the genre back to unexpected texts and uncovering how authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and Rudolph Fisher made use of the genre's puzzle-elements to explore the shifting dynamics of race and labor in America. The author constructs an interracial genealogy of detective fiction to create a nuanced picture of the ways that black and white authors appropriated and cultivated literary conventions that coalesced in a recognizable genre at the turn of the twentieth century. These authors tinkered with detective fiction's puzzle-elements to address a variety of historical contexts, including the exigencies of chattel slavery, the erosion of working-class solidarities by racial and ethnic competition, and accelerated mass production. Dreams for Dead Bodies demonstrates that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature was broadly engaged with detective fiction, and that authors rehearsed and refined its formal elements in literary works typically relegated to the margins of the genre. By looking at these margins, the book argues, we can better understand the origins and cultural functions of American detective fiction.
  note: Miriam Michelle Robinson.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Detective and mystery stories, American
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: African Americans in literature
  subject:
    topic: Working class in literature
  subject:
    topic: Slavery in literature
  subject:
    topic: Work in literature
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
  subject:
    topic: African Americans in literature
  subject:
    topic: Detective and mystery stories, American
  subject:
    topic: Slavery in literature
  subject:
    topic: Work in literature
  subject:
    topic: Working class in literature
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Mystery & Detective
  classification: PS374.D4 R625 2016eb
  classification: 813/.087209
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2015041733
    identifier: (OCoLC)910980426
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    title info:
      title: Class, culture
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  identifier: 0472119818
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 160208
    record change date: 20260728172452.9
    record identifier: in00003712131
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng