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“Hardboiled Feminism: Vera Caspary’s Laura as an Interrogation of the Detective Genre.”
- Author(s):
- Brian Matzke (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Item Type:
- Article
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/cc9s-an23
- Abstract:
- Laura holds a privileged place in detective fiction and film noir, yet Vera Caspary’s novel has received little critical attention. This paper asserts that Caspary’s novel, written within a context of a hypermasculine culture, constitutes a significant feminist revision of the genre that disrupts the hardboiled/scientific binary. By self-reflexively reworking the tropes of the hardboiled detective and using a casebook format associated with scientific detectives, the author crafts a narrative free from the strictures of a male-centered genre, creating a noir novel that boldly breaks from its hardboiled contemporaries.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- Attribution
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