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Out of Deadlock: Female Emancipation in Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski Novels, and Her Influence on Contemporary Crime Fiction

Jennifer Byron

Sara Paretsky is a world-renowned author, highly regarded for her V.I. Warshawski series, which has revolutionized the conventions of the crime fiction genre by presenting a feminist perspective. The notion that crime fiction is merely a popular genre meant for pure ""entertainment"" has particularly been reconsidered, as Paretsky's novels serve a pedagogical purpose in capturing the reader's awareness of different social concerns. It has become evident that various female authors of crime fict...

GenresAmerican LiteratureEnglishLanguages & LiteraturesParetsky, SaraCriticism and interpretationInfluence

164 pages

English edition · First published 2015 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing · ISBN 9781443879293

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