TY - BOOK ID - 85677834 TI - Women and Crime in Post-Transitional South African Crime Fiction : A Study of Female Victims, Perpetrators and Detectives PY - 2021 SN - 9789004437432 9004437436 9004437444 9789004437449 PB - Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, DB - UniCat KW - Detective and mystery stories, South African (English) KW - Women in literature KW - Victims of crimes in literature KW - Female offenders in literature KW - Women detectives in literature KW - Woman (Christian theology) in literature KW - Women in drama KW - Women in poetry KW - Detective and mystery stories, English KW - South African detective stories (English) KW - South African mystery stories (English) KW - South African fiction (English) KW - History and criticism KW - Female offenders in literature. KW - Victims of crimes in literature. KW - Women detectives in literature. KW - Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85677834 AB - 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. ER -