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Postcolonial postmortems : crime fiction from a transcultural perspective /
Recent crime fiction increasingly transcends national boundaries, with investigators operating across countries and continents. Frequently, the detective is a migrant or comes from a transcultural background. To solve the crime, the investigator is called upon to decipher the meaning(s) hidden in cl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2006.
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| Colección: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
102. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Recent crime fiction increasingly transcends national boundaries, with investigators operating across countries and continents. Frequently, the detective is a migrant or comes from a transcultural background. To solve the crime, the investigator is called upon to decipher the meaning(s) hidden in clues and testimonies that require transcultural forms of understanding. For the reader, the investigation discloses new interpretive methods and processes of social investigation, often challenging facile interpretations of the postcolonial world order. Under the rubric 'postcolonial postmortems', thi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (337 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-311) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781429456326 1429456329 9789401203067 9401203067 |
| ISSN: | 0929-6999 ; |