Феминистская ревизия детективного жанра: роман Сары Парецки «Следы пожара»

Abstract

Sara Paretsky is a well-known representative of the detective genre in the contemporary US literature. The action of the novel “Burn Marks” takes place in the 80-s, the novel is born by the second wave of feminism. The character of the main heroine Victoria Warshawski is based on the destruction of gender stereotype. The novel presents a feminist revision of the detective genre, a direct opposition to Agatha Christie’s novels with miss Marple as the main heroine, feminine and tactful.