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Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction (Crime Files)
Maysaa Husam Jaber
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Description for Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction (Crime Files)
Hardcover. This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femmes 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. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Crime Files
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137356468
SKU
V9781137356468
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Ref
99-15
About Maysaa Husam Jaber
Maysaa Husam Jaber is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Baghdad, Iraq. She was a fellow in The University of Massachusetts Boston, USA from September to November 2013. She has published with Palgrave Macmillan, Cambridge Scholars Publishing and the Arab World English Journal.
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