Sex Work and Crime Fiction : Margins of Desire
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Elements in Crime Narratives
ISBN-10
100951685X
ISBN-13
9781009516853
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 25th, 2026
Print length
78 Pages
Weight
128 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.30 x 0.70 cms
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By applying Alex Woloch's theory of character-space and drawing on contemporary Black feminist scholarship that privileges power, pleasure, and desire, this Element reveals how sex worker characters, through their evolving representation to central agents, resist narrative containment and illuminate broader socio-cultural tensions.
This Element argues that the sex worker character in crime narratives, often dismissed as a flat stereotype or mere plot device, actively performs crucial narratological labor that shapes the novel's realism and challenges conventional understandings of character, agency, and social reproduction. By applying Alex Woloch's theory of character-space and drawing on contemporary Black feminist scholarship that privileges power, pleasure, and desire, this study reveals how sex worker characters, through their evolving representation from marginal figures to central agents, resist narrative containment and illuminate broader socio-cultural tensions surrounding gender, class, and authority within the genre.
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