Criminal femmes fatales in American hardboiled crime fiction / Maysaa Husam Jaber.

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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Main Author: Jaber, Maysaa Husam (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Series:Crime files series.
Subjects:
Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Femmes fatales in literature.
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