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The Subject of Murder - Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer (Paperback)
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The Subject of Murder - Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer (Paperback)
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The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for
us. But since at least the nineteenth century, we have seen the
murderer as different from the ordinary citizen - a special
individual who, like an artist or a genius, exists apart from the
moral majority, a sovereign self who obeys only the destructive
urge, sometimes even commanding cult followings. In contemporary
culture, we continue to believe that there is something different
and exceptional about killers, but is the murderer such a
distinctive type? Are they degenerate beasts or supermen as they
have been depicted on the page and the screen? Or are murderers
something else entirely? In "The Subject of Murder", Lisa Downing
explores the ways in which the figure of the murderer has been made
to signify a specific kind of social subject in Western modernity.
Drawing on the work of Foucault in her studies of the lives and
crimes of killers in Europe and the United States, Downing
interrogates the meanings of media and texts produced about and by
murderers. Upending the usual treatment of murderers as isolated
figures or exceptional individuals, Downing argues that they are
ordinary people, reflections of our society at the intersections of
gender, agency, desire, and violence.
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