ESSAY Noir in the New World
Peter Plate Sunday, October 5, 2003
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Many of today's noir writers, varied and multicultural, are
the offspring of a mixed marriage, children of Raymond
Chandler and Frantz Fanon.
It all started with Chandler. The godfather of noir wrote
brilliant stories in the '30s and '40s that promoted racial
and social hegemony. A disregard for Mexicans, Okies and
African Americans was threaded into his groundbreaking
narratives. Ironically, Chandler didn't know he was stirring
up the historical forces of the future. In the decades to
come, his fictive template would inspire the very people he
disdained. They would begin to write their own stories.
Rest at
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/05/RV308400.DTL
Mark Hall
markhall@gol.com
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