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Female Investigators: Rewriting the Masculine Narrative of Crime Fiction

Authors: Bubíková Šárka | Roebuck Olga

Year: 2022

Type of publication: článek v odborném periodiku

Name of source: American and British Studies Annual

Page from-to: 89-99

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
cze	Ženy vyšetřovatelky: přepisování maskulinního narativu detektivní prózy	Článek se věnuje analýze několika děl britské a americké detektivní prózy, která z feministických pozic přepisují tradičně maskulinní narativ žánru, především tradici tzv. soukromého očka. K analyzovaným dílům patří detektivní romány Roberta Galbraitha, Denise Miny, Lindy Barnesové, Dany Stabenowové a S. J. Rozanové.	detektivní próza; drsná škola; soukromá vyšetřovatelka; Robert Galbraith; Denise Mina; Linda Barnesová; Dana Stabenowová; S. J. Rozanová
eng	Female Investigators: Rewriting the Masculine Narrative of Crime Fiction	While the crime genre may have seemed as purely masculine for the greater part of its history, feminist critics looking for the roots of female crime writing have found a rich history of both the woman crime writer as well as the woman detective. Since the 1980s there has been not only a pronounced resurgence of interest in crime fiction, but also a boom of female detectives created by female writers. Focusing on works by Robert Galbraith, Denise Mina, Linda Barnes, Dana Stabenow and S. J. Rozan, this article explores some of the ways the traditionally masculine private eye subgenre can be appropriated to accommodate a female protagonist. Comparing a variety of protagonists and narrative strategies, it further argues that, perhaps paradoxically, the originally dominantly masculine hardboiled PI tradition seems well accommodating to female (even feminist) appropriations.	Crime fiction; hardboiled; female PI; Robert Galbraith; Denise Mina; Linda Barnes; Dana Stabenow; S. J. Rozan