Washing, mopping and snooping: everyday practice and detection in the Blanche White Mysteries series

Autor:	Carla de Figueredo Portilho
Jazyk:	English<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	everyday practices contemporary African American literature detective fiction Literature (General) PN1-6790 French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature PQ1-3999
Zdroj:	Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada, Vol 20, Iss 33 (2024)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	0103-6963 2596-304X
Popis:	Based on Michel de Certeau’s theory on everyday practices, this essay aims to discuss how the daily activities of the common person may constitute a means of resistance of subaltern cultures to the dominant power in contemporary African American writer Barbara Neely’s Blanche White Mysteries series. Following the path once established by Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, the protagonist Blanche White investigates crimes without altering her daily routine as a cleaning lady – routine becomes the space of investigation itself. Blanche’s effacement in society allows her to carry out her investigation, availing herself of her marginal position to question the rules and regulations to which she only apparently submits.
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