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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2015Sara Paretsky
by Cynthia Hamilton, Sharon Monteith, Nahem Yousaf, Rebecca Mortimer
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2021Sara Paretsky
Detective fiction as trauma literature
by Cynthia Hamilton
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.
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2007Thomas Hood and nineteenth-century poetry
by Sara Lodge, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2016The end of the Irish Poor Law?
by Donnacha Lucey, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2016Protest and the politics of space and place, 1789–1848
by Katrina Navickas, Rebecca Mortimer
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2014A critical reader of the romantic grand tour
by Chloe Chard, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2012A lark for the sake of their country
by Rachelle Saltzman, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2008British civilian internees in Germany
by Matthew Stibbe, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2009Community and identity
by Stephen Constantine, Rebecca Mortimer
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2007Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 1760–1830
by Samantha George, Rebecca Mortimer
