Overview
- Places emphasis on gender biasing within spy fiction
- Investigates the dynamic between history and fiction, highlighting key events from within the Cold War
- Explores tropes such as the role that paranoia holds in Cold War spy fiction
Part of the book series: Crime Files (CF)
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About this book
This book analyses the gender roles and political contexts of spy fiction narratives published during the years of the Cold War. It offers an introduction to the development of spy fiction both in England and in the United States and explores the ways in which issues such as the atomic bomb, double agents, paranoia, propaganda and megalomania manifest themselves within the genre. The book examines the ongoing marginalization of women within spy fiction texts, exploring the idea that this unique period in global history is responsible for the active promotion and celebration of masculinity and male superiority. From James Bond to Jason Bourne, the book evaluates the ongoing enforcement of patriarchal ideas and oppressions that, in the name of national security and patriotic duty, have contributed to the development of a genre in which discrimination and bias continue to dominate.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender Roles and Political Contexts in Cold War Spy Fiction
Authors: Sian MacArthur
Series Title: Crime Files
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11787-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11786-2Published: 01 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11789-3Published: 02 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11787-9Published: 31 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2947-8340
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8359
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 256
Topics: Fiction, Literary Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, World History, Global and Transnational History, History, general, Crime and Society