{"id":57660,"date":"2019-02-23T02:57:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T02:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57660"},"modified":"2021-11-28T02:52:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T02:52:18","slug":"the-arresting-eye-race-and-the-anxiety-of-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57660","title":{"rendered":"The Arresting Eye: Race and the Anxiety of Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Arresting Eye: Race and the Anxiety of Detection<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Virginia Press<\/a>
\nMay 2015
\n224 pages
\n6×9 inches
\nCloth ISBN: 9780813937014
\nPaper ISBN: 9780813937021
\nEbook ISBN: 9780813937038<\/p>\n

Jinny Huh<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of English
\nUniversity of Vermont<\/em><\/p>\n

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In her reading of detective fiction and passing<\/a> narratives from the end of the nineteenth century forward, Jinny Huh investigates anxieties about race and detection. Adopting an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, she examines the racial formations of African Americans and Asian Americans not only in detective fiction (from Sherlock Holmes<\/a> and Charlie Chan<\/a> to the works of Pauline Hopkins<\/a>) but also in narratives centered on detection itself (such as Winnifred Eaton\u2019s<\/a> rhetoric of undetection in her Japanese romances). In explicating the literary depictions of race-detection anxiety, Huh demonstrates how cultural, legal, and scientific discourses across diverse racial groups were also struggling with demands for racial decipherability. Anxieties of detection and undetection, she concludes, are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent on each other’s construction and formation in American history and culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Arresting Eye: Race and the Anxiety of Detection University of Virginia Press May 2015 224 pages 6×9 inches Cloth ISBN: 9780813937014 Paper ISBN: 9780813937021 Ebook ISBN: 9780813937038 Jinny Huh, Associate Professor of English University of Vermont In her reading of detective fiction and passing narratives from the end of the nineteenth century forward, Jinny […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,1196,17,6462],"tags":[11327,1216,32538],"class_list":["post-57660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-literary-criticism","category-monographs","category-passing-2","tag-jinny-huh","tag-university-of-virginia-press","tag-uva-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62410,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57660\/revisions\/62410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}