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oapen-20.500.12657-483072021-07-07T13:55:59Z Women and Crime in Post-Transitional South African Crime Fiction Binder, Sabine Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers In this ground-breaking study, Sabine Binder analyses the complex ways in which female crime fictional victims, detectives and perpetrators in South African crime fiction resonate with widespread and persistent real crimes against women in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of crime novels written over the last decade, Binder emphasises the genre’s feminist potential and critically maps its political work at the intersection of gender and race. Her study challenges the perception of crime fiction as a trivial genre and shows how, in South Africa at least, it provides a vibrant platform for social, cultural and ethical debates, exposing violence, misogyny and racism and shedding light on the problematics of law and justice for women faced with crime. Readership: All interested in crime fiction and its gender/racial political potential, its cultural relevance, its ethics and aesthetics, in South Africa and beyond. 2021-04-22T15:02:02Z 2021-04-22T15:02:02Z 2020 book ONIX_20210422_9789004437449_15 9789004437449 9789004437432 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48307 eng Costerus New Series application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789004437449.pdf https://brill.com/abstract/title/57166 Brill Brill | Rodopi 10.1163/9789004437449 10.1163/9789004437449 af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9789004437449 9789004437432 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Brill | Rodopi 230 252 10BP12_198037 Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Swiss National Science Foundation Knowledge Unlatched open access
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In this ground-breaking study, Sabine Binder analyses the complex ways in which female crime fictional victims, detectives and perpetrators in South African crime fiction resonate with widespread and persistent real crimes against women in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of crime novels written over the last decade, Binder emphasises the genre’s feminist potential and critically maps its political work at the intersection of gender and race. Her study challenges the perception of crime fiction as a trivial genre and shows how, in South Africa at least, it provides a vibrant platform for social, cultural and ethical debates, exposing violence, misogyny and racism and shedding light on the problematics of law and justice for women faced with crime. Readership: All interested in crime fiction and its gender/racial political potential, its cultural relevance, its ethics and aesthetics, in South Africa and beyond.
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