Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction - (Crime Files) by Maysaa Husam Jaber (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction.
- About the Author: Maysaa Husam Jaber is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Baghdad, Iraq.
- 216 Pages
- Literary Criticism, American
- Series Name: Crime Files
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Book Synopsis
This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. Maysaa Jaber shows that the criminal literary figures in the genre open up powerful spaces for imagining female agency in direct opposition to the constraining forces of patriarchy and misogyny.About the Author
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.Dimensions (Overall): 8.86 Inches (H) x 5.68 Inches (W) x .79 Inches (D)
Weight: .98 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 216
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: American
Series Title: Crime Files
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Theme: General
Format: Hardcover
Author: Maysaa Husam Jaber
Language: English
Street Date: November 1, 2015
TCIN: 1005549474
UPC: 9781137356468
Item Number (DPCI): 247-27-4116
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.79 inches length x 5.68 inches width x 8.86 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.98 pounds
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