Naslov
The Echo of 19th Century Madwoman in Women's Hardboiled Detective Fiction

Autori
Pandžić, Maja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences „The Politics of Memory“

Mjesto i datum
Zadar, Hrvatska, 06-09.09.2012

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
feminist criticism ; Madwoman ; rewriting hardboiled detective fiction

Sažetak
This presentation shows the concept of the Madwoman, first introduced by Susan Gubar and Sandra Gilbert in their study of 19th century literary works by female authors, reemerging in women’s hardboiled detective fiction of the 1970s and the 1980s. The reemergence of this concept in itself indicates that there was a great need for feminist literary revision of the preceding hardboiled detective fiction, written exclusively by male authors, who characterized women either as manipulative seductresses or irrelevant assistants who served as nothing more but a decoration. Gubar and Gilbert claim that the female author of the 19th century experienced the “anxiety of authorship” – a radical fear that she cannot create because her precursors were exclusively male and so significantly different from her. Their anxiety however gave birth to characters of madwomen who represented: “dark doubles for themselves and their heroines” who openly defied patriarchal norms (Gubar & Gilbert 79). I argue that in hardboiled detective fiction, women authors create female offenders with a purpose of indicating that behind the perpetrators’ crimes and aggressive behavior lays their own victimisation caused by patriarchal norms, as well as the anxiety of authorship because, similarly to the women who were just beginning to write in the 19th century, the female authors of hardboiled detective fiction had only male precursors.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Književnost, Rodni studiji

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