Can female-authored French and German crime novels be read as part
of an international phenomenon of feminist revisions of the crime
genre? This book examines the status of female crime writers and
their female investigators in France and Germany, focusing on four
novels of the 1990s and their reception. In Germany the rise of the
Frauenkrimi has been accompanied by fears of ghettoization on the
part of women writers, and hostile reactions from critics to
perceived feminist ideology, while in France the encroachment of
women on the masculine terrain of the roman noir has given rise to
retrenchments and defensive redefinitions. Far from being a simple
source of pleasure, female-authored crime novels in France and
Germany are a site of conflict; this study exposes the terms of
this conflict and demonstrates the continued centrality of gender
issues in literary studies.
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