1st Edition

Policing Gender and Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Crime Fiction

186 Pages

by Routledge

186 Pages

by Routledge

186 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s popular crime series, written in Spanish and organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermin Garzon, is arguably the most successful detective series published in Spain during the previous three decades. Nina L. Molinaro examines the tensions between the rhetoric of gender differences espoused by the woman detective and the... Read more

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

1 Detection and Correction in the Petra Delicado Series

2 Rationalizing Rape and Other Offenses in Ritos de muerte

3 Dogging Gender and Dia de perros

4 (Re)Solving Castration Anxiety in Mensajeros de la oscuridad

5 Criminal Images and Muertos de papel

6 Masquerading Mothers and Serpientes en el paraiso

7 Home, Homicide, and Un barco cargado de arroz

8 The Romance of Family Planning in Nido vacio

9 Afterword: El silencio de los claustros and Nadie quiere saber

Works Cited