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From Outcasts in the Streets to Movers on the Hill: Narrating the Dark Side of Washington, D.C. in D.C. Noir
2020
American, British and Canadian Studies Journal
AbstractThis article examines the manner in which the recent collection D.C. Noir sets out to illuminate the dark urban corners of the so-called "Capital of the World." I will look at how the neighborhood-based short stories in this collection reveal the urban underbelly of the American nation's capital, its seedy underworld, the dark side of domestic life and murkiness of family ties, the racialized practices and institutionalized corruption plaguing the great American city. I argue that,
doi:10.2478/abcsj-2020-0006
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