Criminal femmes fatales in American hardboiled crime fiction

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

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: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Series:Crime files series.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Femmes fatales in literature.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Literature: history & criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Detective and mystery stories, American
Femmes fatales in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The " Mad-Bad" Criminal Woman; Part I: Pre-War Criminal Femmes Fatales; 2 Narratives of the Underworld: Violence and Dangerous Femininity in Dashiell Hammett's Labyrinthine Criminal World; 3 Narratives of Detection: Femme Fatality and the Detective "Hero" in Raymond Chandler's Fiction; 4 Narratives of Seduction: The Criminal Femme Fatale and the "Forbidden Box" in James M. Cain; Part II: Post-War Criminal Femmes Fatales; 5 Crime, Sex, and Paranoia in Post-War Hardboiled Paperbacks; 6 The Duality of David Goodis's Criminal Femmes Fatales.
  • 7 Mickey Spillane's C riminal Femmes Fatales and the Cold War Vendetta Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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