"It Tasted Like Gasoline": The American Roman Noir and the Oil Encounter in Elliott Chaze’s Black Wings Has My Angel

Ashman, Nathan (2023) "It Tasted Like Gasoline": The American Roman Noir and the Oil Encounter in Elliott Chaze’s Black Wings Has My Angel. In: The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology. Routledge, pp. 359-373. ISBN 9780367550851

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Abstract

This chapter undertakes a close reading of Elliott Chaze’s Black Wings Has My Angel (1953), examining how early noir fiction obliquely reflects on the rapid transformation of twentieth-century American life by the forces of oil capital. We see this not only in the material landscapes that these texts reveal, but also in their evocation of a particular type of desiring yet “alienated post-war subject”. Noir pessimism, in this sense, can be understood as a contextually specific response to the ways in which petro-modernity shifted the social, cultural and financial climate of the United States following the Great Depression.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Creative Writing Research Group Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group
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Date Deposited:	20 Jul 2023 10:30
Last Modified:	15 Oct 2025 15:34
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/92634
DOI:	10.4324/9781003091912-34

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