The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: fiction

  • Ghost Writers: Generative AI, Intellectual Property, and the Trope of the Hidden Author

    Grading concerns are converging with literary critical ones this weekend as I type less-than-patient messages to class members who wrote an analysis of an autobiographical sketch in which they misrepresent the topic, themes, events, and personages. Thanks, ChatGPT, for that hallucination. Very much appreciated. But intriguingly (one finds the silver lining), mystery fiction is also…

  • Alice Munro, Again: “Fiction”

    But first, for something completely different. Readers may have noticed that there is a decided lack of ethnocultural/racial diversity among the authors I’m considering in this project. It’s a challenge in the field of crime fiction in Canada and it leads to, for instance, Pamela Bedore’s excellent book devoting a chapter to Ausma Zehanat Khan’s…

  • “I’m no prude but . . .”: Alice Munro’s Women and the Problems of Sex and Love

    In Munro’s Who Do You Think You Are? (I always feel like the question mark is wrong, as it’s an accusation and not a question), Rose recovers from the birth of her first child in a maternity ward, where one woman dominates the conversation about how her kitchen shelves are arranged. In a sea of…