Background
Reddy, Maureen T. was born on March 20, 1955 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Thomas and Joann Kehoe Reddy.
(Since 1975, many white women and people of colour have wr...)
Since 1975, many white women and people of colour have written works of crime fiction. Readers worldwide clamour for adventures featuring detectives of colour, such as Barbara Neely's "Blanche White" and Walter Mosley's "Easy Rawlins". Mysteries, considered "light reading" also hold important cultural and social "clues". Much contemporary scholarly work has demonstrated that race is both a cultural fiction - not a biological reality - and a central organizing principle of experience. Popular writers are likely to reflect the conventions of their own historical situations. In this text, the author explores the ways in which crime fiction manipulates cultural constructions such as race and gender to inscribe dominant cultural discourses. She notes that even those writers who appear to set out with the goal of revising conventions repeatedly produce some of the genre's most conservative elements.
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Reddy, Maureen T. was born on March 20, 1955 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Thomas and Joann Kehoe Reddy.
Bachelor, Boston College, 1976. Master of Arts, Boston College, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy, University Minnesota, 1985.
Assistant professor Haverford College, Pennsylvania, 1985—1987. Professor Rhode Island College, Providence, since 1987.
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Married Douglas M. Best, June 16, 1979. Children: Brendan.