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author
Farré Vidal, Carme
editor
Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
2016-06-21T18:11:20Z
2016-06-21T18:11:20Z
2012
ES: Revista de filología inglesa, 2012, N.33, pags.45-60
0210-9689
http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17247
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33
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Detective fiction has popularly been considered a light form of literary entertainment. However, many of this genre’s practitioners underline the way that their novels engage with contemporary social issues, as a close reading of the texts may reveal. Kathy Reichs’ fiction is no exception. In this sense, her Brennan series may be analysed as prompting the reader to set out on a journey of discovery in different ways. This article argues that content and form work hand in hand at the service of Kathy Reichs’ social feminist agenda and that just as the many times bare bones found at the crime scene point to both the victim’s and criminal’s identity, they eventually become suggestive of how our contemporary society works. Blurring the difference between fact and fiction, Kathy Reichs’ forensic detective novels expose the bare bones of an array of current societal miseries and appeal to the reader’s complicity for the need of social change.
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Filología Inglesa
The bare bones of social commentary in Kathy Reichs' fiction
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https://uvadoc.uva.es/bitstream/10324/17247/1/ES-2012-33-TheBareBonesOfSocial.pdf
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