Postcolonial postmortems : crime fiction from a transcultural perspective /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Matzke, Christine, Muehleisen, Susanne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.
Colección:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 102.
Temas:
Detective and mystery stories > History and criticism.
Crime in literature > Cross-cultural studies.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Criminalité dans la littérature > Études transculturelles.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Crime in literature
Detective and mystery stories
Postcolonialism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Postcolonial postmortems: issues and perspectives / Christine Matzke and Susanne Mühleisen
  • Crimes domestic and crimes colonial: the role of crime fiction in developing postcolonial consciousness / Stephen Knight
  • Confession, autopsy and the postcolonial postmortems of Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost / Wendy Knepper
  • Sherlock Holmes--he dead: disenchanting the English detective in Kazuo Ishiguro's When we were orphans / Tobias Döring
  • Holmes's Indian reincarnation: a study in postcolonial transposition / Suchitra Mathur
  • Manga, Zen, and samurai: negotiating exoticism and orientalist images in Sujata Massey's Rei Shimura novels including an interview with Sujata Massey / Katja Sarkowsky
  • Investigating the motif of crime as transcultural border crossing: Cinnamon gardens and The sandglass / Vera Alexander
  • Riddles in the sands of the Kalahari: detectives at work in Botswana / Elfi Bettinger
  • Political loyalties and the intricacies of the criminal mind: the detective fiction of Wessel Ebersohn / Geoffrey V. Davis
  • Colonial struggle on Manhattan soil: George Schuyler's 'The Ethiopian murder mystery' / A.B. Christa Schwarz
  • 'Redneck wonderland': Robert G. Barrett's crime fiction / Xavier Pons
  • Transcultural British crime fiction: Mike Phillips's Sam Dean novels including an interview with Mike Phillips / Patricia Plummer.

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