@article{1479613,
      recid = {1479613},
      author = {Forter, Gregory, },
      title = {Murdering Masculinities : Fantasies of Gender and Violence  in the American Crime Novel /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {Though American crime novels are often derided for  containing misogynistic attitudes and limiting ideas of  masculinity, Greg Forter maintains that they are instead  psychologically complex and sophisticated works that demand  closer attention. Eschewing the synthetic methodologies of  earlier work on crime fiction, Murdering Masculinities  argues that the crime novel does not provide a consolidated  and stable notion of masculinity. Rather, it demands that  male readers take responsibility for the desires they  project on to these novels. Forter examines the narrative  strategies of five novels--Hammett's The Glass Key, Cain's  Serenade, Faulkner's Sanctuary, Thompson's Pop. 1280, and  Himes's Blind Man with a Pistol--in conjunction with their  treatment of bodily metaphors of smell, vision, and voice.  In the process, Forter unearths a "generic unconscious"  that reveals things Freud both discovered and sought to  repress.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479613},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814728185.001.0001},
}