Women and Crime in Post-Transitional South African Crime Fiction

Sabine Binder is a senior lecturer at the Zurich University of Teacher Education. She has published on South African crime fiction, gender and teaching methodology.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Choice of Texts and Approach2 Post-Transitional Literature3 Post-Transitional Crime Fiction and Crime Discourse4 Post-Transitional Gender Conflicts5 Preview of Chapters1 The Female Victim1 The Female Victim: Introduction2 Boniswa Sekeyi and Lulu: Witnesses of Systemic and Sexual Violence in Penny Lorimer’s Finders Weepers3 Resisting Arrest: Amahle Matebula, Female Victim in Malla Nunn’s Blessed Are the Dead4 Serial Female Victimhood: Margie Orford’s Clare Hart Series5 The Female Victim: Conclusion2 The Female Perpetrator1 The Female Perpetrator: Introduction2 Mike Nicol’s Femme Fatale Sheemina February: Empowered Female Agent or Symptom of Male Fears?3 Jassy Mackenzie’s Renegade Detective Jade de Jong: Exploring Femininity and Justice4 Angela Makholwa’s Black Widow Society: Collective Female Terror against Gender Norms5 The Female Perpetrator: Conclusion3 The Female Detective1 The Female Detective: Introduction2 Not That Kind of Cop: Michéle Rowe’s Detective Constable Persy Jonas3 Not What South Africans Expect: Hawa Jande Golakai’s Investigator Vee Johnson4 Renegade Contained: Charlotte Otter’s Investigative Journalist Maggie Cloete5 The Female Detective: ConclusionConclusionWorks CitedIndex

“Die vorliegende Analyse zeigt auf, dass der südafrikanische Kriminalroman sich als Plattform für eine soziale, kulturelle und ethische Debatte versteht.” -Thomas Przybilka, BoKAS – Bonner Krimi Archiv Sekundärliteratur Germany, in Der Krimi-Tipp Sekundärliteratuur Vol. 71 2021 pp. 5-6