Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction

Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 9781137356475
ISBN-13 : 1137356472
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Book Synopsis Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction by : Maysaa Husam Jaber

Download or read book Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction 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. 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.


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