Date of Award

1-1-2012

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Program

Spanish

Content Description

1 online resource (vii, 227 pages)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Ilka Kressner

Committee Members

Maurice Westmoreland, Eduard Arriaga-Arango

Keywords

Anti-detective, Castration, Detective, Feminocentric, Mujer, Neo-detective, Women detectives in literature, Detective and mystery stories, Spanish American

Subject Categories

Arts and Humanities | Latin American Literature | Latin American Studies

Abstract

This study analyzes the representation of women detectives in three Hispano-American novels. In the last three decades women detectives started to introduce themselves inside predominantly male literary models. Nevertheless, while there is an abundance of figures, both feminine and tough, in the Anglo-American and Spanish literature, women detectives appear later in time in the Hispano-American detective novels. An examination of the Latin-American context will evaluate the causes of this initial sporadic appearance of the women detectives. In relation to the works presented in this dissertation, the social function of the women detectives is explored and it is determined whether they represent isolated instances, which break away from the traditional formulas, or they become part of the detective novel evolution, setting new models in the representation of women in a deeply patriarchal society.

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