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Queering Agatha Christie - Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
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Queering Agatha Christie - Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Crime Files
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Total price: R4,235
Discovery Miles: 42 350
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This book is the first fully theorized queer reading of a Golden
Age British crime writer. Agatha Christie was the most commercially
successful novelist of the twentieth century, and her fiction
remains popular. She created such memorable characters as Hercule
Poirot and Jane Marple, and has become synonymous with a nostalgic,
conservative tradition of crime fiction. J.C. Bernthal reads
Christie through the lens of queer theory, uncovering a playful,
alert, and subversive social commentary. After considering
Christie's emergence in a commercial market hostile to her sex, in
Queering Agatha Christie Bernthal explores homophobic stereotypes,
gender performativity, queer children, and masquerade in key texts
published between 1920 and 1952. Christie engaged with debates
around human identity in a unique historical period affected by two
world wars. The final chapter considers twenty-first century Poirot
and Marple adaptations, with visible LGBT characters, and poses the
question: might the books be queerer?
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