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

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Jaber, Maysaa Husam

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Publication details: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK(Imprint), 2016.Description: IX, 216 p. online resourceISBN:

9781137356475 (ebook:PDF)

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DDC classification:

809.04 23

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Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	National Library of India			Available		EBK000027690ENG

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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.

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