"Males dones" i altres estereotips de la novel·la criminal

The symposium "'Males dones' i altres estereotips de la novel·la criminal", coordinated by Elena Losada and María Xesús Lama (Universitat de Barcelona), seeks to open a debate on the evolution of stereotypes commonly associated to masculity and femininity through the current “boom” of crime fiction. The new femmes fatales and other “bad women” reveal significant social changes. And if women gain agency for being evil, male characters can become emotional beings, weaken themselves and even become hommes fatales, as it will be shown by Diego Ameixeiras in his speech which will be followed by a discussion with the public and with the participants of the round table. Ameixeiras is a journalist and scriptwriter, author of a long list of crime novels as  Baixo mínimos (2004), O cidadán do mes (2006), Todo OK (2012), Matarte lentamente (2013) and A noite enriba (2015), whose plots lead to the fiction of current issues such as the scam of the preferred, the internal fights of the political parties and drug trafficking, using the chronic of a decaying society as a background. Some of his novels have been translated into Spanish. Eva Correa and Joana Videira (Universitat de Barcelona) and Esmeralda G. Morales (Centre Dona i Literatura) will also participate. The symposium is part of the research project “Female Victims and Aggressors. Representations of Violence in Crime Fiction Written by Women".