Female representation of violence and desire in the crime novel
Keywords:
sexuality, pornography, rape, violence, women’s writing, desire.
Abstract
This paper aims to present the first female erotic contributions to the contemporary French crime novel. Sexual desire is presented, although it is often pornographic and linked to the violence of a male demand governing female writers in fiction that tends to overlook social criticism. The paper analyses how, from the exaltation of the phallus and of violence, female crime writers attempt to introduce another kind of a much needed sexuality that becomes a social, and even a profitable, necessity.Downloads
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2014-03-12
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López Martínez M. (2014). Female representation of violence and desire in the crime novel. Thélème. Revista Complutense de Estudios Franceses, 29(1), 127-139. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_THEL.2014.v29.40480
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