ジャンル攪乱 : スポフォードとギルマンの探偵小説(特別寄稿論文,関西英文学研究)

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  • Genre Trouble : Detective Stories of Spofford and Gilman(Kansai English Studies)
  • ジャンル攪乱 : スポフォードとギルマンの探偵小説
  • ジャンル カクラン : スポフォード ト ギルマン ノ タンテイ ショウセツ

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Since Edgar Allan Poe published "The Murder in the Rue Morgue" in 1841, the detective fiction is one of the most popular genres, attracting tremendous numbers of readers. There were some professional American women detective writers at the turn of the twentieth century, but there are some women writers who are better known in other genre and still wrote a few detective stories. From among the latter examples, this essay focuses on "In the Maguerriwock" (1868) written by Harriet P. Spofford and Unpunished (written in 1927) by Charlotte P. Gilman and investigates what they tried to challenge in writing these less acknowledged detective stories. In a detective fiction, it is regarded that the detective who succeeds in solving the crime puzzle and in restoring order in the lawfully administered society, becomes a hero. But in both stories that I examine, although the crime mysteries are solved, the detectives do not function properly and fail to become heroes. Rather, the characters beside the detectives are much more foregrounded; the insane wife "In the Maguerriwock," and the woman who actually causes the death of victim but unpunished in Unpunished, and shift the main focus of the stories. These detective stories are transformed into a DV crime story in the former case and into a fairy-tale in the latter. Therefore it is not too much to say that in both cases, they challenge to cause "genre trouble" to the detective genre, an entity of patriarchal authority. Both may not be evaluated as good detective stories, but I believe their challenges are worth remarking and mentioning as an early unique form of resistance to the patriarchy.

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