Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction

This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. Maysaa Jaber shows that the criminal literary figures in the genre open up powerful spaces for imagining female agency in direct opposition to the constrain...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jaber, Maysaa Husam (-)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 2016.
Colección:Crime Files Series.
Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario:This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. Maysaa Jaber shows that the criminal literary figures in the genre open up powerful spaces for imagining female agency in direct opposition to the constraining forces of patriarchy and misogyny.
Descripción Física:IX, 216 p.
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781137356475