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Introduction to Fiction, Crime, and the Feminine

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The form of art called fiction—whether we refer to prose, poetry, or film—has always been the privileged framework, the other scene in space and time (“not here, not now”) providing the perfect alibi—literally, an elsewhere—for facing, framing, and containing the Other’s desire and the strange libido attached to violence: in other words, there is an ambivalent dimension inherent in the scenarios and fantasies we enjoy by proxy. Are not the fairy tales of our childhood full of images of death and violence, whose fascinating presence, contained at the core of the tale, is paradoxically meant to make us feel all the more safely tucked up in bed? After all, the wolf or the Little Red Riding Hood, the monstrous killer or the unfortunate victim are but fictitious characters, mere shifting positions: they are “not me”—therefore, thanks to the willing suspension of disbelief process, any reading “I” may shift into their speech or thoughts on the fictional screen, a stage both for projection of and protection from such forbidden enjoyments.
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Rédouane Mohammed Aboueddahab Abouddahab. Introduction to Fiction, Crime, and the Feminine. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Fiction, Crime, and the Feminine, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, 9781443827102. ⟨hal-04528037⟩
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