"Be a white man": Majoritarian Perspectives and Their Subversion in James Ellroy's Dudley Smith Trilogy.

James Ellroy's Dudley Smith trilogy features Deleuzian majoritarian perspectives- those of the dominant social groups- but subverts them simultaneously. The protagonists' language is significantly infected by their opponents' minoritarian discourses. Also subversive is the villainous Smith - an unin...

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Publicado en:Clues: A Journal of Detection (McFarland & Company) Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 90 - 102
Autor principal: Clay, Jon
Formato: Essay
Publicado: McFarland & Company, Inc. 2010
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