ISBN:
9781137356475
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (240 p)
Series Statement:
Crime Files Series
Series Statement:
Crime Files
Series Statement:
Springer eBook Collection
Series Statement:
Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Literature
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Literature History and criticism
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Fiction
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America Literatures
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Sociology.
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Literature—Philosophy.
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Culture—Study and teaching.
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Literature, Modern—20th century.
;
Literature
;
Literature History and criticism
;
Fiction
;
America Literatures
;
USA
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Kriminalliteratur
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Femme fatale
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Hammett, Dashiell 1894-1961
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Chandler, Raymond 1888-1959
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Cain, James M. 1892-1977
;
Goodis, David 1917-1967
;
Spillane, Mickey 1918-2006
Abstract:
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
DOI:
10.1057/9781137356475
URL:
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