{"product_id":"sara-paretsky-detective-fiction-as-trauma-literature","title":"Sara Paretsky: Detective Fiction as Trauma Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eThis is the first book-length study of Sara Paretsky’s detective fiction. Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSara 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n                            \u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 256g\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 138 x 214 x 16 (mm)\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781526156044\n                            \n                          \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cynthia Hamilton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44099552772346,"sku":"9781526156044","price":13.73,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/5e76ce5ce2833fd2117d187d04c92d37.jpg?v=1635739938","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/sara-paretsky-detective-fiction-as-trauma-literature","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}