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Women and Crime in Post-Transitional South African Crime Fiction : A Study of Female Victims, Perpetrators and Detectives / Sabine Binder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Binder, Sabine, author.
- Series:
- Costi e margini dei prodotti agricoli ; Volume 230.
- Costerus New Series ; Volume 230
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories, South African (English)--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories, South African (English).
- Female offenders in literature.
- Victims of crimes in literature.
- Women detectives in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 244 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Brill 2020
- Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2021]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this ground-breaking study, Sabine Binder analyses the complex ways in which female crime fictional victims, detectives and perpetrators in South African crime fiction resonate with widespread and persistent real crimes against women in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of crime novels written over the last decade, Binder emphasises the genre’s feminist potential and critically maps its political work at the intersection of gender and race. Her study challenges the perception of crime fiction as a trivial genre and shows how, in South Africa at least, it provides a vibrant platform for social, cultural and ethical debates, exposing violence, misogyny and racism and shedding light on the problematics of law and justice for women faced with crime. Readership: All interested in crime fiction and its gender/racial political potential, its cultural relevance, its ethics and aesthetics, in South Africa and beyond.
- Contents:
- The female victim
- The female perpetrator
- The female detective.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (JSTOR, viewed September 29, 2022).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-43744-4
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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