The politics of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest.(Essay)

Mosaic (Winnipeg) | December 1, 2007| | Copyright

Although Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest is often read as a Marxist novel, this essay argues that the novel's politics are much more ambiguous, reflecting Hammett's position at the time as between his earlier employment as a Pinkerton detective and his later sympathy with the Communist Party.

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Dashiell Hammett's novels transformed detective fiction into literature. Before Hammett, mystery stories involved the reader in solving a crime, observing clues and deducing "whodunit." Hammett's fiction is less about mystery, and more about crime and the ...

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