Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction
Awards:   Short-listed for Crimefest H. R. F. Keating Award 2016 Shortlisted for Crimefest H. R. F. Keating Award 2016.
Author:   Maysaa Husam Jaber
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
ISBN:  

9781137356468


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   01 November 2015
Format:   Hardback
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  • Short-listed for Crimefest H. R. F. Keating Award 2016
  • Shortlisted for Crimefest H. R. F. Keating Award 2016.

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Author:   Maysaa Husam Jaber
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   3.894kg
ISBN:  

9781137356468


ISBN 10:   1137356464
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   01 November 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction 1. The 'Mad-Bad' Criminal Woman PART I: PRE-WAR CRIMINAL FEMMES FATALES 2. Narratives of the Underworld: Violence and Dangerous Femininity in Dashiell Hammett's Labyrinthine Criminal World 3. Narratives of Detection: Femme Fatality and the Detective 'Hero' in Raymond Chandler's Fiction 4. Narratives of Seduction: The Criminal Femme Fatale and the 'forbidden box' in James M. Cain PART II: POST-WAR CRIMINAL FEMMES FATALES 5. Crime, Sex and Paranoia in Post-War Hardboiled Fiction 6. The Duality of David Goodis's Criminal Femmes Fatales 7. Mickey Spillane's Criminal Femmes Fatales and the Cold War Vendetta Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Maysaa Husam Jaber is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Baghdad, Iraq. She was a fellow in The University of Massachusetts Boston, USA from September to November 2013. She has published with Palgrave Macmillan, Cambridge Scholars Publishing and the Arab World English Journal.

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