Title: Traces, Codes, and Clues
First published: December 2002
Description: This text explores the ways in which crime fiction manipulates cultural constructions such as race and gender to inscribe dominant cultural discourses. It notes that even those writers who set out to revise conventions repeatedly produce some of the genre's most conservative elements.
Subjects: African Americans in literature, American Detective and mystery stories, Blacks in literature, Crime in literature, Detective and mystery stories, American, Detective and mystery stories, English, English Detective and mystery stories, History and criticism, Popular literature, Race in literature, Race relations in literature, Racism in literature, Whites in literature, Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism, White people in literature, Black people in literature
Places: English-speaking countries
LC classification: PS374.D4 R45 2003