Unreal Cities: the Veterans’ Homecoming and the Fate of Postwar Noir

Noir fiction was shaped, in the aftermath of World War II, by a generation of ex-servicemen who wrote, under the guise of crime stories, about the difficulty of returning to American cities and civilian life. Their often paranoid tales of victimization, violence and murder dramatize the homecoming v...

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Main Author: Benoît Tadié
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2022-05-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/18870
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