Writing the violated body : representations of violence against women in Margie Orford’s crime thriller novels

Using the late twentieth-century French feminist notions of écriture féminine and the abject as a starting point, this article considers the various pitfalls, effects and ethical ramifications of representations of violence against the female body in South African crime fiction. How do authors recon...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Naidu, Sam
Language:English
Published: Scrutiny 2 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53932
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18125441.2014.904396
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9456-8657