
The Arresting Eye
Race and the Anxiety of Detection
Jinny Huh(Author)
University of Virginia Press
Will be published approx. on 30. May 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-0-8139-3702-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Charlottesville
United States
Illustrations
6 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
317 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8139-3702-1 (9780813937021)
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Jinny Huh is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Vermont, USA.