Bloody Women: How Female Authors Have Transformed the Scottish Contemporary Crime Fiction Genre
This study will explore the role of female authors in contemporary Scottish crime fiction. Over the past thirty years, women writers have overhauled the traditionally male dominated genre of crime fiction by writing about strong female characters who drive the plot and solve the crimes. Authors incl...
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| description | This study will explore the role of female authors in contemporary Scottish crime fiction. Over the past thirty years, women writers have overhauled the traditionally male dominated genre of crime fiction by writing about strong female characters who drive the plot and solve the crimes. Authors including Val McDermid, Denise Mina and Lin Anderson are just a few of the women who have challenged the expectation of gender and genre. By setting their novels in contemporary society they reflect a range of social and political issues through the lens of a female protagonist. By closely examining the female characters, both journalists, in Val McDermid’s Lindsay Gordon series and Denise Mina’s Paddy Meehan series, I wish to explore the issue of gender through these writers’ perspectives. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-918c33f128b94ace884baedce5fbefb42022-12-21T16:43:15ZengSciendoAmerican, British and Canadian Studies Journal1841-964X2017-06-01281527110.1515/abcsj-2017-0004abcsj-2017-0004Bloody Women: How Female Authors Have Transformed the Scottish Contemporary Crime Fiction GenreHill Lorna0University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandThis study will explore the role of female authors in contemporary Scottish crime fiction. Over the past thirty years, women writers have overhauled the traditionally male dominated genre of crime fiction by writing about strong female characters who drive the plot and solve the crimes. Authors including Val McDermid, Denise Mina and Lin Anderson are just a few of the women who have challenged the expectation of gender and genre. By setting their novels in contemporary society they reflect a range of social and political issues through the lens of a female protagonist. By closely examining the female characters, both journalists, in Val McDermid’s Lindsay Gordon series and Denise Mina’s Paddy Meehan series, I wish to explore the issue of gender through these writers’ perspectives.https://doi.org/10.1515/abcsj-2017-0004womencrime fictionfemale protagonistsval mcdermiddenise minalin andersonscottishdomestic abusehuman traffickinggender |
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| title | Bloody Women: How Female Authors Have Transformed the Scottish Contemporary Crime Fiction Genre |
| title_full | Bloody Women: How Female Authors Have Transformed the Scottish Contemporary Crime Fiction Genre |
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| title_short | Bloody Women: How Female Authors Have Transformed the Scottish Contemporary Crime Fiction Genre |
| title_sort | bloody women how female authors have transformed the scottish contemporary crime fiction genre |
| topic | women crime fiction female protagonists val mcdermid denise mina lin anderson scottish domestic abuse human trafficking gender |
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