Who Didn’t Do It?

IF 0.1 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI:10.5325/reception.14.1.0022

Erin A. Smith

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Abstract

David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon is a generic hybrid: literary journalism, true crime tale of the Wild West, and whodunit. I argue that the activation of different sets of reader expectations for these genres gives it an extraordinarily powerful political impact. Based on reviews and reader responses on Amazon and Goodreads and on the genre characteristics of the narrative itself, I make the case that Grann satisfies readers’ expectations for formula Westerns and classical detective stories in the first two parts (i.e., solving the crime and arresting the bad guy), only to undermine them in the final section, in which just about all the white citizens in the county emerge as complicit with the crimes. Further, Killers of the Flower Moon–like many true-crime stories–offers a feminist critique of the romance plot by unveiling how happily-ever-after marriages can turn violent and abusive for women.

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谁没做?

大卫·格兰的《花月杀手》是一部综合了文学新闻、西部真实犯罪故事和侦探小说的作品。我认为，激活不同类型的读者对这些类型的期望，使其具有非常强大的政治影响。根据亚马逊(Amazon)和Goodreads上的评论和读者的反应，以及叙事本身的类型特征，我认为《格兰》在前两部分满足了读者对西部片和经典侦探小说的期望(即破案和逮捕坏人)，但在最后一部分却破坏了这些期望，因为在最后一部分，这个县几乎所有的白人公民都成了犯罪的同谋。此外，像许多真实的犯罪故事一样，《花月杀手》通过揭示婚后幸福的女人如何变得暴力和虐待，对浪漫情节进行了女权主义的批判。

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期刊介绍： Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published once a year. It seeks to promote dialog and discussion among scholars engaged in theoretical and practical analyses in several related fields: reader-response criticism and pedagogy, reception study, history of reading and the book, audience and communication studies, institutional studies and histories, as well as interpretive strategies related to feminism, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and postcolonial studies, focusing mainly but not exclusively on the literature, culture, and media of England and the United States.