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Killing Carmens
Shelley Godsland
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Description for Killing Carmens
Hardcover. Focuses on women's crime writing from Spain and offers an approach to Spanish crime fiction, combining literary criticism with sociological and criminological theory. This multidisciplinary study analyses how female authors use crime and detective genres to analyse the role and position of their countrywomen. Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; DSK; JKV. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
An innovative and best-selling addition to contemporary peninsular literature, crime fiction by Spanish women re-writes the norms for this particular genre as established by male authors inside Spain, and revises and re-fashions paradigms for the detective novel produced by female Anglophone writers. In the first of three chapters, the author shows how the figure of the female sleuth has been deployed by novelists to articulate a feminist ideology or to reflect on the contemporary Spanish post-feminist environment. With reference to gendered criminology, she then moves on to discuss how writers use crime fiction to investigate the problem of gendered violence, ... Read more
An innovative and best-selling addition to contemporary peninsular literature, crime fiction by Spanish women re-writes the norms for this particular genre as established by male authors inside Spain, and revises and re-fashions paradigms for the detective novel produced by female Anglophone writers. In the first of three chapters, the author shows how the figure of the female sleuth has been deployed by novelists to articulate a feminist ideology or to reflect on the contemporary Spanish post-feminist environment. With reference to gendered criminology, she then moves on to discuss how writers use crime fiction to investigate the problem of gendered violence, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Wales Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Iberian and Latin American Studies
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Wales, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780708320167
SKU
V9780708320167
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About Shelley Godsland
Shelley Godsland is Professor of Spanish ad Latin American Literature at the University of Amsterdam, and one of the European Crime Fictions series editors.
Reviews for Killing Carmens
'...a sparkling new study.'Patricia Hart, Chair of Film/Video Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette