Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction

Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction
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Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9783031291609
ISBN-13 : 3031291603
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Book Synopsis Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction by : Marta Usiekniewicz

Download or read book Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction written by Marta Usiekniewicz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction draws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fiction criticism, masculinity studies, and the cultural analysis of food and consumption practices from a critical eating studies perspective. In particular, this book focuses on food as an analytical category in the study of tough masculinity as represented in American hardboiled fiction. Through an examination of six American novels: Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Leigh Brackett's No Good from a Corpse, Dorothy B. Hughes's In a Lonely Place, Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me, and Rex Stout's Champagne for One, this book shows how these novels reflect the gradual process of redefining consumption and consumerism in America, which traditionally has been coded as feminine. Marta Usiekniewicz shows that food and eating also reflect power relations and larger social and economic structures connected to class, gender, geography, sexuality, and ability, to name just a few.


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