{"product_id":"9781526156044","title":"Sara Paretsky : Detective Fiction as Trauma Literature","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":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41191738802328,"sku":"9781526156044","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/products\/9781526156044.jpg?v=1635171487","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781526156044","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}