Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction
Authors: Jaber, Maysaa
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Maysaa Husam Jaber is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Baghdad, Iraq. She was a fellow in The University of Massachusetts Boston, USA from September to November 2013. She has published with Palgrave Macmillan, Cambridge Scholars Publishing and the Arab World English Journal.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-11
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The “Mad-Bad” Criminal Woman
Pages 12-31
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Narratives of the Underworld
Pages 35-51
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Narratives of Detection
Pages 52-72
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Narratives of Seduction
Pages 73-101
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction
- Authors
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- Maysaa Jaber
- Series Title
- Crime Files
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-35647-5
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137356475
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-35646-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 216
- Topics
