商品簡介
Exploring how Margaret Atwooda€?s fiction reimagines the figure of the detective and the nature of crime, Jackie Shead shows how the author radically reworks the crime fiction genre. Shead focuses on Surfacing, Bodily Harm, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake and selected short fiction, showing the ways in which Atwooda€?s protagonists are confronted by their own collusion in hegemonic assumptions and thus are motivated to investigate and expose crimes of gender, class and colonialism. Shead begins with a discussion of how Atwooda€?s treatment of crime fictiona€?s generic elements, particularly those of the whodunit, clue puzzle and spy thriller, departs from convention. Through discussion of Atwooda€?s metafictive strategies, Shead also examines Atwooda€?s techniques for activating her readers as investigators who are offered an educative process parallel to that experienced by some of the authora€?s protagonists. This book also marks a significant intervention in an ongoing debate among Atwood critics that pits the authora€?s postmodernism against her ethical and humanistic concerns.
作者簡介
Jackie Shead received her PhD in English Literature from the University of Bristol. She has lectured at colleges in Exeter and Bristol and has published many articles in The English Review.
