On the lam : narratives of flight in J. Edgar Hoover's America / William Beverly.
"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, O...
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| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2003]
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 236 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1578065372 9781578065370 |