The arresting eye : race and the anxiety of detection

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Label

The arresting eye : race and the anxiety of detection

Title remainder

race and the anxiety of detection

Statement of responsibility

Jinny Huh

Creator

• Huh, Jinny, 1968-

Subject

• African Americans -- Race identity
• Asian Americans -- Race identity
• Asian Americans -- Race identity
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Detective and mystery stories, American
• Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism
• Electronic books
• Ethnische Identität
• Kriminalroman
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
• Passing (Identity) in literature
• Passing (Identity) in literature
• Race awareness
• Race awareness -- United States
• Rasse
• USA
• United States
• African Americans -- Race identity

Genre

• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

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. --Provided by publisher

Member of

• Cultural frames, framing culture

Cataloging source

N$T

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Cultural Frames, Framing Culture