Policing Gender and Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Crime Fiction |
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| Author:
| Molinaro, Nina L. |
| Series title: | New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-1-317-07906-4 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2016 |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $48.95USD $180.00USD $180.00 |
Book Description:
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Alicia Giménez Bartlett's popular crime series, organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermin Garzon, is arguably the most successful detective series in Spain of the last three decades. Nina L. Molinaro examines the tensions between the rhetoric of gender differences espoused by the woman detective and the orthodox ideology of the police procedural, and she situates her discussion in Petra Delicado's contemporary Spain of dog owners,...
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Alicia Giménez Bartlett's popular crime series, organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermin Garzon, is arguably the most successful detective series in Spain of the last three decades. Nina L. Molinaro examines the tensions between the rhetoric of gender differences espoused by the woman detective and the orthodox ideology of the police procedural, and she situates her discussion in Petra Delicado's contemporary Spain of dog owners, ¡Hola!, Russian cults, and gated communities.