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.

“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

• 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