TY - BOOK AU - Binder, Sabine AB - In this ground-breaking study, Sabine Binder analyses the complex ways in which female crime fictional victims, detectives and perpetrators in South African crime fiction resonate with widespread and persistent real crimes against women in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of crime novels written over the last decade, Binder emphasises the genreā€™s feminist potential and critically maps its political work at the intersection of gender and race. Her study challenges the perception of crime fiction as a trivial genre and shows how, in South Africa at least, it provides a vibrant platform for social, cultural and ethical debates, exposing violence, misogyny and racism and shedding light on the problematics of law and justice for women faced with crime. Readership: All interested in crime fiction and its gender/racial political potential, its cultural relevance, its ethics and aesthetics, in South Africa and beyond. DO - 10.1163/9789004437449 ID - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20210422_9789004437449_15 ID - OAPEN ID: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48307 KW - Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48307/1/9789004437449.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48307/1/9789004437449.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68075 PB - Brill PY - 2020 SN - 9789004437449 SN - 9789004437432 TI - Women and Crime in Post-Transitional South African Crime Fiction : A Study of Female Victims, Perpetrators and Detectives ER -