Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction [electronic resource] / by Maysaa Husam Jaber.

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Jaber, Maysaa Husam [author.]

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Series: Crime Files SeriesPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016Description: IX, 216 p. online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781137356475

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:

809.04 23

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PN770-PN779

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In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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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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.