Name: Sara Paretsky: Detective Fiction as Trauma Literature (Contemporary American and Canadian Writers)
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Author: Cynthia Hamilton
ISBN: 9780719096952

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Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Manchester Univ Pr

Author

Cynthia Hamilton

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780719096952

Synopsis "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.