Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction
Download or Read eBook Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction PDF written by Maysaa Husam Jaber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Maysaa Husam Jaber |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2016-02-02 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781137356475 |
ISBN-13 | : 1137356472 |
Rating | : 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction by : Maysaa Husam Jaber
Book excerpt: 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.