Representación de la violencia y del deseo en la novela negra en femenino
ISSN: 1139-9368, 1989-8193
Year of publication: 2014
Volume: 29
Issue: 1
Pages: 127-139
Type: Article
More publications in: Thélème: Revista complutense de estudios franceses
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Abstract
This paper aims to present the first female erotic contributions to the contemporary French crime novel. Sexual desire is presented, although it is often pornographic and linked to the violence of a male demand governing female writers in fiction that tends to overlook social criticism. The paper analyses how, from the exaltation of the phallus and of violence, female crime writers attempt to introduce another kind of a much needed sexuality that becomes a social, and even a profitable, necessity.