Taking up a neglected area in the study of the crime novel, this collection investigates the growing number of writers who adapt conventions of detective fiction to expose problems of law, ethics, and identity that arise in postcolonial and transnational settings. Essays explore novels set in Latin America, the Caribbean, India, and North America, including novels that view the American metropolis through the eyes of minority detectives
Taking up a neglected area in the study of the crime novel, this collection investigates the growing number of writers who adapt conventions of detective fiction to expose problems of law, ethics, and identity that arise in postcolonial and transnational settings. Essays explore novels set in Latin America, the Caribbean, India, and North America, including novels that view the American metropolis through the eyes of minority detectives
Nels Pearson is Assistant Professor of English at Fairfield University, USa and Marc Singer is Assistant Professor of English at Howard University, USA
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Contents: Introduction: open cases: detection (post)modernity and the state Nels Pearson and Marc Singer; Investigating truth history and human rights in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost Emily S. Davis; Postcolonial noir: Vikram Chandra's 'Kama ' Claire Chambers; Postcolonial epistemologies: transcending boundaries and re-inscribing difference in The Calcutta Chromosome Maureen Lauder; Detective narrative typology: going undercover in the French Caribbean Jason Herbeck; Out on parole: suspending oral culture's death sentence in Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnifique Greg Wright; A journey lost in mystery: Mario Vargas Llosa's Death in the Andes Haiqing Sun; The hunt for the world's greatest outlaw: imperialist policing the journalistic novel and the 'war on terror' in Colombia Robin Truth Goodman; 'Sympathetic traveling': horizontal ethics and aesthetics in Paco Ignacio Taibo's Belascoaran Shayne novels Jennifer Lewis; Hot on the heels of postcolonial America: the case of the Latina detective Wendy Knepper; Walter Moseley's Devil in a Blue Dress: the reforming spirit of neo-noir Raphaël Lambert; Lost in translation: the multicultural interpreter as metaphysical detective in Suki Kim's The Interpreter Soo Yeon Kim; Index.
Contents: Introduction: open cases: detection (post)modernity and the state Nels Pearson and Marc Singer; Investigating truth history and human rights in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost Emily S. Davis; Postcolonial noir: Vikram Chandra's 'Kama ' Claire Chambers; Postcolonial epistemologies: transcending boundaries and re-inscribing difference in The Calcutta Chromosome Maureen Lauder; Detective narrative typology: going undercover in the French Caribbean Jason Herbeck; Out on parole: suspending oral culture's death sentence in Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnifique Greg Wright; A journey lost in mystery: Mario Vargas Llosa's Death in the Andes Haiqing Sun; The hunt for the world's greatest outlaw: imperialist policing the journalistic novel and the 'war on terror' in Colombia Robin Truth Goodman; 'Sympathetic traveling': horizontal ethics and aesthetics in Paco Ignacio Taibo's Belascoaran Shayne novels Jennifer Lewis; Hot on the heels of postcolonial America: the case of the Latina detective Wendy Knepper; Walter Moseley's Devil in a Blue Dress: the reforming spirit of neo-noir Raphaël Lambert; Lost in translation: the multicultural interpreter as metaphysical detective in Suki Kim's The Interpreter Soo Yeon Kim; Index.
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