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- Title
What the Shadows Know: The Crime-Fighting Hero the Shadow and His Haunting of Late-1950s Literature.
- Authors
Mortenson, Erik
- Abstract
The article examines the role of fictional character the Shadow in the work of authors Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac, and Amiri Baraka and the factors that contributed to their attraction to him in the late 1950s. It offers information on the Shadow, a crime fighter introduced in 1931 in a pulp magazine. The Shadow was reportedly used by the writers to explore the loss of childhood innocence and obverse side of American optimism.
- Subjects
SHADOW (Fictional character); LITERARY characters; PLATH, Sylvia, 1932-1963; KEROUAC, Jack, 1922-1969; BARAKA, Amiri, 1934-2014; PULP magazines; INNOCENCE (Psychology) in literature; OPTIMISM
- Publication
American Studies (00263079), 2016, Vol 54, Issue 4, p99
- ISSN
0026-3079
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ams.2016.0023