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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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2003]
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Table of 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.