Sara Paretsky

Detective fiction as trauma literature

By: Cynthia Hamilton

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Paperback | 29 June 2021

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This is the first book-length study of Sara Paretsky's detective fiction.

Sara Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values. But Paretsky does more than this. Her novels also illustrate the extent to which detective fiction acts as a literature of trauma, allowing Paretsky to address the politics of agency in ways that go beyond the personal, for trauma always has a social and a political dimension. Paretsky's work also exploits the way detective fiction mirrors the writing of history.

Here, Paretsky uses the form to expose the partiality of historical accounts - whether they be personal, institutional, or national – that authorise 'forgetting' of a particularly insidious kind. Significantly, all these issues are explored within the framework of the traditional hard-boiled detective novel. As a result, Paretsky's achievement forces us to acknowledge the deeply subversive potential of detective fiction.

About the Author

Cynthia S. Hamilton is Professor of American Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool Hope University

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