| Frauenkrimi/Polar Faeminin: Generic Expectations and the Reception of Recent French and German Crime Novels by Women Contributor(s): Barfoot, Nicola (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820487597 ISBN-13: 9780820487595 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing OUR PRICE: $49.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 843.912 |
| LCCN: 2007451706 |
| Series: Medien - Literaturen - Sprachen in Anglistik/Amerikanistik, |
| Physical Information: 227 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Can female-authored French and German crime novels be read as part of an international phenomenon of feminist revisions of the crime genre? This book examines the status of female crime writers and their female investigators in France and Germany, focusing on four novels of the 1990s and their reception. In Germany the rise of the Frauenkrimi has been accompanied by fears of ghettoization on the part of women writers, and hostile reactions from critics to perceived feminist ideology, while in France the encroachment of women on the masculine terrain of the roman noir has given rise to retrenchments and defensive redefinitions. Far from being a simple source of pleasure, female-authored crime novels in France and Germany are a site of conflict; this study exposes the terms of this conflict and demonstrates the continued centrality of gender issues in literary studies. |