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On the lam : narratives of flight in J. Edgar Hoover's America / William Beverly.
- Title
- On the lam : narratives of flight in J. Edgar Hoover's America / William Beverly.
- Author
- Beverly, William, 1965-
- Publication
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2003], ©2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS374.F83 B48 2003 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 236 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The fugitive is the sinister hero of many a novel (Light in August, Beloved), the luminary in a cluster of motion pictures and in other popular entertainment (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Bonnie and Clyde, The Fugitive, Thelma and Louise), a headliner for the daily news (O.J. Simpson, Osama bin Laden). Yet, although a paradigm and symbol, seldom has the fugitive figure been the focus of literary or cultural discussion." "Correcting that oversight, this book maps changing landscapes of criminal flight in American texts by focusing on the years between 1932 and 1952, the period when the codes of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI first prevailed. It was the time that policing was modernized and reconfigured, a time when law enforcement fought to redeem itself from the corruption and compromise of Prohibition."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Criminals in literature
- Film noir > United States > History and criticism
- Fugitive slaves in literature
- Fugitives from justice in literature
- Fugitives from justice in motion pictures
- Hoover, J. Edgar 1895-1972 > Influence
- Justice, Administration of, in literature
- Justice, Administration of, in motion pictures
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The Figure of the Fugitive -- 1. Robert Elliott Burns: The Slave Narrative's Pale Ghost -- 2. J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Discourse on Crime -- 3. "This Sure Keeps a Fellow Moving": The Making of John Dillinger -- 4. "An Infinity of Bleak Tomorrows": The Closure of Fugitive Space in the Noir West -- 5. "I Might as Well Be in the Penitentiary as in His Hands": Wright, Ellison, and the Black Fugitive.
- ISBN
- 1578065372 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002010799
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries