- Title
- Body/Language: Gender and Power in Hard-Boiled Fiction
- Author/Creator
- Jopi Nyman
- Publication Details
- Irish Journal of American Studies, Vol.4, pp.67-85
- Annotation
- Classifies To Have and Have Not as an archetypal work of hard-boiled fiction, comparing the novel with Dashiell Hammett s Red Harvest (1924) and James Mallahan Cain s The Postman Always Rings Twice (1937). Studies Harry s exemplification of the genre s aggressively masculine male with his white, muscular body, appropriation of controlling street language, and domination of all forms of femininity.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015132309803691
Journal article
Body/Language: Gender and Power in Hard-Boiled Fiction
Irish Journal of American Studies, Vol.4, pp.67-85
1995
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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