Sara Paretsky Detective Fiction as Trauma Literature - Contemporary American and Canadian Writers

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.

ISBN:	9781526156044
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Published date:	29 Jun 2021
DEWEY:	813.6
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	200
Weight:	256g
Height:	138mm
Width:	214mm
Spine width:	16mm

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