{"product_id":"9781526156044","title":"Sara Paretsky","description":"\u003cp\u003eSara 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59659026039116,"sku":"9781526156044","price":20.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/4163\/2076\/files\/9781526156044-68f30316932b90c6_front.webp?v=1793376138","url":"https:\/\/foxandfable.com\/de\/products\/9781526156044","provider":"Fox \u0026 Fable","version":"1.0","type":"link"}