Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13101-9 — a History of American Crime Fiction Edited by Chris Raczkowski Index More Information 353
Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13101-9 — A History of American Crime Fiction Edited by Chris Raczkowski Index More Information 353 Index abolitionist literature see also slave narratives women writers, 110 , 118 – 21 Address of Abraham Johnstone, A Black Alcott, Louisa May, 110 Man … To the People of Color , 31 Alfau, Felipe, 223 – 4 nativist rhetoric, 64 Alger, Horatio, 103 , 107 slave narratives and, 263 Ames, Levi, 21 – 2 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 58 , 63 antebellum crime fi ction see also city mystery abolitionists see also slavery novels ; urban crime fi ction accusations of slave stealing, 77 immigrants’ living conditions, 66 – 7 American Anti- Slavery Society (AASS), 72 , racial ambivalence of, 63 73 , 77 – 8 , 80 as social critique, 57 anti- slavery sentiments in Romanticism, 62 – 3 anthropometry, 141 incrimination of, 77 – 8 Appel, Benjamin, 184 slave testimonies at alternative Arendt, Hannah, 195 , 196 tribunals, 79 – 81 Auden, W. H. Acker, Kathy, 228 on the detective genre, 158 , 176 African- American detective fi ction see also “ Th e Guilty Vicarage”, 159 , 168 , 341 Himes, Chester New Year Letter , 163 – 5 absurd violence and representations of Auster, Paul, 94 , 229 racism, 269 authority, institutionalized Black Chicago Renaissance, 267 – 8 city mystery novels as challenge to, 51 – 2 black identity and ties with Africa, 265 – 6 individual autonomy vs. social authority in Th e Black Sleuth (Bruce), 265 – 6 gallows genre, 21 – 2 Th e Conjure Man Dies (Fisher), 266 – 7 liberal authority values in hard- boiled fi ction,
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