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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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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The “Mad-Bad” Criminal Woman
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Pre-War Criminal Femmes Fatales
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Front Matter
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Post-War Criminal Femmes Fatales
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Front Matter
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Conclusion
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction
Authors: Maysaa Husam Jaber
Series Title: Crime Files
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137356475
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-35646-8Published: 01 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-35647-5Published: 02 February 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-8340
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8359
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 216
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, Gender Studies, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, North American Literature