- 200 pages
- English
- PDF
- Only available on web
About This Book
Sara Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values. But Paretsky does more than this. Her novels also illustrate the extent to which detective fiction acts as a literature of trauma, allowing Paretsky to address the politics of agency in ways that go beyond the personal, for trauma always has a social and a political dimension. Paretsky's work also exploits the way detective fiction mirrors the writing of history. Here, Paretsky uses the form to expose the partiality of historical accounts â whether they be personal, institutional, or national â that authorise 'forgetting' of a particularly insidious kind. Significantly, all these issues are explored within the framework of the traditional hard-boiled detective novel. As a result, Paretsky's achievement forces us to acknowledge the deeply subversive potential of detective fiction.
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Table of contents
- Sara Paretsky
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series editorsâ foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Novels by Sara Paretsky in order of publication date
- Introduction
- 1 Repositioning the debate
- 2 Sexual politics and agency
- 3 Community and empowerment
- 4 Global capital and marginality
- 5 Destabilising the status quo
- Afterword
- Select bibliography
- Index