Lucy Evans

Gebundenes Buch

Crime Fiction in the Caribbean

Reframing Crime and Justice

Beschreibung

Covering novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, and Haiti, Lucy Evans explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to raise pressing questions about what constitutes crime and justice in a Caribbean context, and about accountability.

Autor

Lucy Evans is Associate Professor in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leicester, UK. Her current research focuses on crime fiction and representations of crime in the Caribbean. She is also working with Caribbean-based researchers and creative practitioners to develop strategies for using spoken word poetry and theatre in gender-based violence prevention initiatives. She is the author of Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories (Liverpool University Press, 2014), co-editor of The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives (Peepal Tree Press, 2011), and co-editor of the journal special issue 'Representing Crime, Violence and Jamaica', Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 22:1 (2020).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198919889
• ISBN-10: 0198919883
• Artikelnr.: 73370544