By Doric Germain
Reesor Siding, Nord de l’Ontario, nuit du 10 au eleven février 1963. Un affrontement en forêt fait trois morts.
Quelques semaines avant l. a. nuit du drame, les travailleurs de los angeles Spruce Falls energy and Paper corporation déclenchent une grève. Or, les cultivateurs des environs, qui possèdent des droits de coupe, continuent de vendre leur bois à los angeles papetière, au grand dam des ouvriers. Pierre Ménard est l’un de ceux-là. Il fréquente Madeleine, dont le père, Hermas, est en grève. Pris dans ce climat de rigidity, les deux hommes se retrouvent dans des camps opposés.
Dans Défenses légitimes, Doric Germain met en lumière, avec humanité et sens de l’histoire, le contexte de los angeles tuerie. vehicle en filigrane du drame se joue le destin de deux groupes dans un monde en transformation : celui des cultivateurs attachés à un mode de vie en voie de disparition, et celui d’une classe de travailleurs syndiqués aspirant à une nouvelle forme de modernité.
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The cult and how it is used against Gabrielle is important as the connective tissue between the gothic tropes specific to this novel and the criminal underworld that underpins all of Hammett’s work. While the Temple 44 Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction of the Holy Grail underscores the divide between the victimization of Gabrielle and the cunning tricks played on her by Aaronia and Alice, it is also part of what John Scaggs calls the “fakery and artifice that characterise the modern city of hard-boiled fiction [which] drive a wedge between what is seen and what is known” (2005: 72).
More modern theories of women’s crime, ironically, base their concepts on a methodology that ignores women. The “new” criminology, which started in the 1960s and came as a response to traditional criminological theories discussed above, did not utilize an adequate approach to the study of women’s crime. 51 In the United States, the mid-twentieth century was an era of extensive research on criminality, largely dominated by a sociological approach. Yet notably, these studies gave short shrift to the issue of women’s crime.
51 In the United States, the mid-twentieth century was an era of extensive research on criminality, largely dominated by a sociological approach. Yet notably, these studies gave short shrift to the issue of women’s crime. A number of trends contributed to this oversight. First, sociologists moved away from regarding criminal behavior as abnormal and pathological and came to see it as normal and even admirable. Second, the period was marked by the growth of structural approaches to the study of “deviance” such as anomie and Marxist theory (Heidensohn 1985: 127).