Resisting invisibility :: detecting the female body in Spanish crime fiction /

"Resisting Invisibility investigates the politics of visibility of women's bodies in Spanish crime fiction. By 'politics of female visibility', the author refers to the textual practices that determine the imperceptibility of women's bodies, including both exposure and erasu...

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Main Author: Aramburu, Diana, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Series:Toronto Iberic ; 44.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"Resisting Invisibility investigates the politics of visibility of women's bodies in Spanish crime fiction. By 'politics of female visibility', the author refers to the textual practices that determine the imperceptibility of women's bodies, including both exposure and erasure. What is at stake in the politics of visibility is the constitution of women as political subjects. The politics of visibility takes on a crucial role in crime fiction because it changes the nature of the story, from a plot that hinges on a female body denied full political participation through various strategies of objectification, to a narrative where the body functions as a critical tool of resistance to pinpoint the ineffectiveness of the legal system. The book provides insight into how authors engage readers with the politics of visibility of the female body through their manipulation of generic conventions involving the gaze and how, in turn, the female body gains or resists visibility."--
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 282 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258) and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781487530532
1487530536
9781487530525
1487530528

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