Killing Carmens: Women's Crime Fiction from Spain

by Shelley Godsland

The detective genre, or novela negra, is one of Spain's most popular types of fiction: these books, many written by female writers, have obtained best-selling status and been translated into multiple languages. Killing Carmens, the first book-length study of women's crime writing in Spain, offers a fresh approach to the study of Spanish crime fiction--combining literary criticism with sociological, feminist, and criminological theory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0708320163
• ISBN13: 9780708320167
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"