Abstract
Women's detective fiction is one of the most popular forms of fiction today. Detective fiction, as a genre, provides the opportunity for women as writers, protagonists, and readers to engage with their problems, concerns, and anxieties. From the 1980s onwards, the genre has demonstrated diversity and inclusiveness in terms of plots, themes, characters, and concerns. Women writers like Marcia Muller, Sue Grafton, and Sara Paretsky began to write their novels with a conscious feminist perspective. Their novels addressed feminist concerns and aimed for social change. The 1990's saw the emergence of feminism which became a more broad-based movement that sought freedom for all oppressed groups. It is with this understanding of feminism as a multicultural, multi-issue movement to end all forms of oppression that this paper examines the treatment of race in selected novels of Marcia Muller in the Sharon McCone series.
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P. V. Geetha Lakshmi Patnaik
Associate Professor of English, B.J.R. Govt. Degree College, Narayanaguda, Hyderabad
Received: 03-04-2019, Accepted: 11-05-2019, Published Online: 28-05-2019