Traces, Codes, and Clues
Racism in literature
Black people in literature
Race relations in literature
Crime in literature
Blacks in literature
Detective and mystery stories, English
Detective and mystery stories, American
Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism
Race in literature
Popular literature
African Americans in literature
English Detective and mystery stories
American Detective and mystery stories
History and criticism
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.
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