Private (Brown) Eyes: Ethnicity, Genre and Gender in Crime Fiction in the Gloria Damasco novels and the Chicanos Comic Series.
The representation of women in crime fiction has traditionally been a complicated one. Consistently forced into secondary characters (assistants, girlfriends, or damsels in distress) the most active role a female character could aspire to was that of the femme fatale, a pit of perdition, an unwelcom...
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Milano University Press
2016-05-01
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Series: | Altre Modernità |
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Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/7177 |