Sara Paretsky

Detective Fiction as Trauma Literature

Sara Paretsky
Cynthia Hamilton
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h216 x 138mm - 200pg
6 Apr 2021 UK
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9781526156044
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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 - whether they be personal, institutional, or national - 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.
Cynthia S. Hamilton is Professor of American Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool Hope University
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ISBN-13: 9781526156044
Published: 6 Apr 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 200

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