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Title:
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In their blooming sixties: aging as awakening in Amanda Cross’ an imperfect spy and the puzzled heart
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Author:
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Domínguez Rué, Emma
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Notes:
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The writer and Columbia professor Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (1926–2003) is
widely known for her best-selling Kate Fansler mystery novels, published under
the pseudonym of Amanda Cross. However, she also authored remarkable
pieces of non-fiction in which she asserted her long-standing commitment to
feminism, while she also challenged established notions on women and aging
and advocated for a reassessment of these negative views. Taking her essays in
feminism and literary criticism as a basis and two of her later novels as substantiation
to my argument, this paper will try to illustrate the ways in which the aging
female characters in her Kate Fansler series became an instrument to make
her views on female aging available to a mass audience of women readers. My
aim is to reveal the ways in which Heilbrun’s highly commercial mystery novels
as Amanda Cross were used as a catalyst that informed her feminist principles
while vindicating the need to rethink about issues concerning the cultural and
literary representations of mature women |
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-Envelliment
-Detectius
-Narrativa |
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Rights:
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cc-by-nc-nd (c) Domínguez, 2012
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
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Document type:
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article
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Published by:
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VU University Library
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