Gumshoe America

"The secret history of American crime fiction doubles back to the 1920s and 1930s American left. The noir novelists of Sean McCann's shrewd and disturbing "Gumshoe America "devised a fierce, experimental pop-Modernism, an intransigent anti-popular strain within popular culture. McCann writes passionately, argumentatively, authoritatively, alert to both accomplishment and loss. Probably no prior study of American crime fiction is more entangled in the claims and contradictions of community, race, class, and politics."--Robert Polito, author of "Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson "

Acknowledgments

vii

Uncivil Society: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Idea of a Democratic Culture

1

(38)

Constructing Race Williams: The Klan and the Making of Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction

39

(48)

``Mystic Rigmarole'': Dashiell Hammett and the Realist Critique of Liberalism

87

(53)

The Pulp Writer as Vanishing American: Raymond Chandler's Decentralist Imagination

140

(58)

Letdown Artists: Paperback Noir and the Procedural Republic

198

(53)

Tangibles: Chester Himes and the Slow Death of New Deal Populism

251

(55)

Conclusion: Beyond Us, Yet Ourselves

306

(3)

Notes

309

(40)

Bibliography

349

(16)

Index

365

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