Mark. Thanks for mentioning Eversz. I was trying to think of
male authors who do seem to capture and write with a woman's
perspective.
I think I just got it!! And, of course, it is personal, but
Nina I liked! Ms. Hendricks' characters -- at least in first
three -- I didn't.
Good enough.
Off to re-read Woodrell.
Keith
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> Keith wrote:
>
> "The first three of the four do, indeed, present
three views of a
> character in psychological agony."
>
> As does the fourth.
>
> "They happen to be women. Miss Hendricks makes sure
that the reader is
> not confused by the main characters gender and, I
suggest, her focus
> and
> development is never on the men with whom her
character interacts. So,
> is she a woman's or a man's voice?"
>
> I agee with all of this, but would add that she
writes in A woman's
> voice. My point was that she explores individual
women, not
> womankind.
> She is not writing about all women any more than Jim
Thompson is
> writing
> about all men. So why do we (I've certainly been
guilty of it on
> occasion, too) label Hendricks "female noir," but
simply call Thompson
> noir, without any qualifiers.
>
> And if the gender of the noir is determined by the
voice of the
> character, is Robert Eversz, creator of Nina Zero,
also a voice of
> female noir? And does it make Dorothy Hughes, for
instance, male
> noir?
>
> Mark
>
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