scholarly journals Serial Crime, Serious Threats? Replicating the ‘Yellow Peril’ in British Popular Crime Fiction

Ocula ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilena Parlati
Keyword(s):  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
Serial Crime

“The Paper Old and Faded and Falling to Pieces”: Absalom, Absalom! and the Pulping of History

2017 ◽  
pp. 177-191
Author(s):  
Brooks E. Hefner
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
Adventure Fiction

This chapter examines how Faulkner's dramatization of the historical endeavor reflects the print culture conventions of his era. It argues that Absalom's “fluid and flexible” relationship to history amounts to a “pulping” of the historical record, “self-consciously destroying, recycling, and repurposing” it in ways gleaned from the “popular literary production” of the 1920s and 1930s. The so-called shudder pulps, with their emphasis on terror and the occult; “hero pulps” and other modes of popular adventure fiction; Black Mask-school hard-boiled crime fiction; Yellow Peril narratives and other tales depicting “racialized threat[s] to sexual purity” and the domestic sphere—the novel employs all of these pulp genres to shape and sensationalize the Sutpen saga and its central figures, in what amounts to a lowbrow version of the “emplotment” process that Hayden V. White finds at work in all historical narrative.

Introduction: Crime Fiction and the Past

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-156
Author(s):  
Eric Sandberg
Keyword(s):  
Crime Fiction ◽  
The Past

Brian Cliff, Irish Crime Fiction

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-393
Author(s):  
Shirley Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Crime Fiction

Book Reviews

Transfers ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-149
Keyword(s):  
Sex Workers ◽  
Global City ◽  
Viet Nam ◽  
Community Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
David Walker ◽  
And Migration

Yogesh Sharma, ed., Coastal Histories: Society and Ecology in Pre-Modern India Debojyoti DasJason Lim, A Slow Ride into the Past: The Chinese Trishaw Industry in Singapore 1942–1983 Margaret MasonXiang Biao, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, and Mika Toyota, eds., Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia Gopalan BalachandranAjaya Kumar Sahoo and Johannes G. de Kruijf, eds., Indian Transnationalism Online: New Perspectives on Diaspora Anouck CarsignolKieu-Linh Caroline Valverde, Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora Yuk Wah ChanChristine B.N. Chin, Cosmopolitan Sex Workers: Women and Migration in a Global City Lilly Yu and Kimberly Kay HoangDavid Walker and Agnieszka Sobocinska, eds., Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century Daniel OakmanValeska Huber, Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond, 1869–1914 Vincent LagendijkBieke Cattoor and Bruno De Meulder, Figures Infrastructures: An Atlas of Roads and Railways Maik HoemkeKlaus Benesch, ed., Culture and Mobility Rudi Volti

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