| Description |
262 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
"Different and yet the same" : women's worlds/women's lives and the classroom / Margaret Kinsman -- Shot/reverse shot : dis-solving the feminist detective story in Kanew's film V.I. Warshawski / Manina Jones -- Racism, sexism, and antiSemitism in mysteries featuring women sleuths / Frances A. Della Cava and Madeline H. Engel -- Ethnic detectives in popular fiction : new directions for an American genre / Gina Macdonald and Andrew Macdonald -- Dana Stabenow's Alaska mysteries / Mary Jean DeMarr -- Identity politics : April Smith's North of Montana and Rochelle Majer Krich's Angel of Death / Priscilla L. Walton -- Detective as other : the detective versus the other / Michael Cohen -- In search of our sisters' mean streets : the politics of sex, race and class in black women's crime fiction / Nicole Décuré -- Blanche on the Lam, or the invisible woman speaks / Frankie Y. Bailey -- Writing black : crime fiction's other / Claire Wells -- Black noir : race and urban space in Walter Mosley's detective fiction / Liam Kennedy -- Bridges and boundaries : race, ethnicity, and the contemporary American crime novel / Andrew Pepper. |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.
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Cultural pluralism in literature.
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Difference (Psychology) in literature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Ethnic groups in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Race in literature.
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| Added Author |
Klein, Kathleen Gregory, 1946-
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| ISBN |
0879727950 cloth |
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0879727969 paperback |
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