Sara Paretsky’s work has generated interest among scholars. This scholarship generally falls into two camps: some scholars argue that she successfully revises the hardboiled genre from a feminist perspective, but other scholars argue that she simply reproduces the hardboiled genre with a detective who happens to be a woman. Put another way, just making the private investigator a woman does not necessarily make a text a “feminist” text. Write an essay in which you take a position in this debate. At some point (probably early in the essay), you will need to explain the working definition of feminism that you and/or the scholars you discuss draw on. What does Paretsky keep or revise from the hardboiled tradition? You might think about the hardboiled detective figure, setting, plot, the role of violence, etc. Why does Paretsky keep or revise aspects of the hardboiled tradition?In addition to your primary text (this is the literary text–novel, film, tv show, etc), you must reference at least five other academic sources (Wikipedia and Joe Bob’s Homepage do not count). These sources might be journal articles or academic books about your primary text or crime fiction more generally.
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