Download This PaperSolution to Dissolution: Detective Fiction from Wilkie Collins to Gabriel Garcia Marquez
46 Pages Posted: 20 Jan 2007
Abstract
In this paper, I describe the transformation of legal culture over the hundred year period framed by two works of detective fiction, Wilkie Collins' THE LAW AND THE LADY, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD. I contend that Collins's novel represents legal culture as constructed on perceptions of factual and legal objectivity and rigid gender castes, while Garcia Marquez deconstructs these same aspects of the genre in order to represent law as without authority, facts as ambiguous, and gender roles as misleading.
Keywords: Law, literature, detective fiction, mysteries, Garcia Marquez, Wilkie Collins
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Cavallaro, Rosanna, Solution to Dissolution: Detective Fiction from Wilkie Collins to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Texas Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 15, No. 1, Fall 2005, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=957799
Do you have a job opening that you would like to promote on SSRN?
Feedback
Feedback to SSRN
If you need immediate assistance, call 877-SSRNHelp (877 777 6435) in the United States, or +1 212 448 2500 outside of the United States, 8:30AM to 6:00PM U.S. Eastern, Monday - Friday.