Jackie Shead

Margaret Atwood: Crime Fiction Writer

The Reworking of a Popular Genre

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring how Margaret Atwood's fiction reimagines the figure of the detective and the nature of crime, Jackie Shead shows how the author radically reworks the crime fiction genre. By revealing how her female protagonists confront their own complicity with hegemonic assumptions about gender, class and colonialism, Atwood invites her readers to part

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9780367880934
• ISBN-10: 0367880938
• Artikelnr.: 58439098

Autorenporträt

Jackie Shead received her PhD in English Literature from the University of Bristol. She has lectured at colleges in Exeter and Bristol and has published many articles in The English Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents:
Preface
Introduction
1 Margaret Atwood and the Crime Fiction Genre
2 Surfacing: The Detective Murder Mystery
3 Bodily Harm: The Game of Clue and the Spy Thriller
4 Alias Grace: The Cold Case and the Doomed Detective
5 The Blind Assassin: Conspiracy and Confession
6 Payback and Selected Fiction: Reckoning, Redress, Retribution
7 The Metafictive Detective Story
8 Margaret Atwood and Post-Colonial Crime Fiction
Conclusion