{"title":"Of Herrings Red and Lavender: Reading Crime and Identity in Queer Detective Fiction","authors":"Faye Stewart","doi":"10.3172/CLU.27.2.33","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":": Why study queer detective novels? This question is answered through an examination of the similarities between the tasks of solving crime and decoding sexual identity. Diverse modes of code reading employed in detective narratives are untangled, exposing their structural relationships to the investigative work of interpreting and categorizing ambiguous sexualities. The author’s analysis includes Thea Dorn’s Berliner Aufklärung (Berlin Enlightenment, 1994).","PeriodicalId":221689,"journal":{"name":"Clues: A Journal of Detection","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Clues: A Journal of Detection","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3172/CLU.27.2.33","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
: Why study queer detective novels? This question is answered through an examination of the similarities between the tasks of solving crime and decoding sexual identity. Diverse modes of code reading employed in detective narratives are untangled, exposing their structural relationships to the investigative work of interpreting and categorizing ambiguous sexualities. The author’s analysis includes Thea Dorn’s Berliner Aufklärung (Berlin Enlightenment, 1994).