{"product_id":"murdering-masculinities-9780814726914","title":"Murdering Masculinities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough 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, \u003cb\u003eMurdering Masculinities\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e Forter examines the narrative strategies of five novels--Hammett''s \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Key\u003c\/i\u003e, Cain''s \u003ci\u003eSerenade\u003c\/i\u003e, Faulkner''s \u003ci\u003eSanctuary\u003c\/i\u003e, Thompson''s \u003ci\u003ePop. 1280\u003c\/i\u003e, and Himes''s \u003ci\u003eBlind Man with a Pistol\u003c\/i\u003e--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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMurdering Masculinities makes a sophisticated, substantial contribution to contemporary debates about gender and sexuality. It pays closer, more intelligent, and more sustained attention to the crime novels it considers than has been paid them before, and it not only engages an impressive range of psychoanalytic thinkers, but contributes significantly to the development and refinement of psychoanalytic theory. -- Tim Dean,University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign\u003cbr\u003eSumptuous, elegant, nuanced, and accessible, Greg Forter's Murdering Masculinities helps us to remember what language can do. But Forter minces more than words in this provocative new book. He offers a transformative reading of American crime fiction, arguing that it is not to high modernism that we should look for the reinvention of gender, but rather to the ‘low' works of authors like James Cain, Chester Himes, Dashiell Hammett, Jim Thompson, and William Faulkner. -- Kaja Silverman","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405875028311,"sku":"9780814726914","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780814726914.jpg?v=1730493761","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/murdering-masculinities-9780814726914","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}