L’anatomie d’un crime au féminin
It is well known that in the collective imagination murder by poisoning is almost exclusively practiced by women. In the Greek popular tradition, the women’s crime –crime mainly motivated by passion– joins the view of an archaic violence that reverses the image of the nursing mother by projecting de...
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| description | It is well known that in the collective imagination murder by poisoning is almost exclusively practiced by women. In the Greek popular tradition, the women’s crime –crime mainly motivated by passion– joins the view of an archaic violence that reverses the image of the nursing mother by projecting demonic figures against nature. Motivated by revenge or moreover jealousy, murderesses take revenge by killing and cooking often in order to express a deep discomfort in the patriarchal society.However, in our era of food fetish, this relationship between eating and killing is defined as a voluptuous and funeral process that links eroticism and gastronomy. Focused on a comparative approach, this paper proposes to think how fiction, obsessed with the luxury of eating crystallizes the hybrid culinary myth of women’s crime in order to analyze the perspective of a narrative. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dc298a82561448b1b579aca41df890552022-12-21T18:33:39ZengCentre d'Études BalkaniquesCahiers Balkaniques0290-74022261-41842017-03-0110.4000/ceb.6701L’anatomie d’un crime au fémininMartha VassiliadiIt is well known that in the collective imagination murder by poisoning is almost exclusively practiced by women. In the Greek popular tradition, the women’s crime –crime mainly motivated by passion– joins the view of an archaic violence that reverses the image of the nursing mother by projecting demonic figures against nature. Motivated by revenge or moreover jealousy, murderesses take revenge by killing and cooking often in order to express a deep discomfort in the patriarchal society.However, in our era of food fetish, this relationship between eating and killing is defined as a voluptuous and funeral process that links eroticism and gastronomy. Focused on a comparative approach, this paper proposes to think how fiction, obsessed with the luxury of eating crystallizes the hybrid culinary myth of women’s crime in order to analyze the perspective of a narrative.http://journals.openedition.org/ceb/6701Female crimesWomen poisonersGreeceTwentieth centurySocial historyLiterature |
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| title | L’anatomie d’un crime au féminin |
| title_full | L’anatomie d’un crime au féminin |
| title_fullStr | L’anatomie d’un crime au féminin |
| title_full_unstemmed | L’anatomie d’un crime au féminin |
| title_short | L’anatomie d’un crime au féminin |
| title_sort | l anatomie d un crime au feminin |
| topic | Female crimes Women poisoners Greece Twentieth century Social history Literature |
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