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Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World

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Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World book

Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World

DOI link for Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World

Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World book

ByNels Pearson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2009
eBook Published 22 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315576794
Pages 224 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315576794
SubjectsArea Studies, Humanities, Language & Literature
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Pearson, N., Singer, M. (Ed.). (2009). Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315576794

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 truth that arise in postcolonial and transnational communities. While detective fiction has been linked to imperialism and constructions of race from its earliest origins, recent developments signal the evolution of the genre into a potent framework for narrating the complexities of identity, citizenship, and justice in a postcolonial world. Among the authors considered are Vikram Chandra, Gabriel García Márquez, Michael Ondaatje, Patrick Chamoiseau, Mario Vargas Llosa, Suki Kim, and Walter Mosley. The essays explore detective stories set in Latin America, the Caribbean, India, and North America, including novels that view the American metropolis from the point of view of Asian American, African American, or Latino characters. Offering ten new and original essays by scholars in the field, this volume highlights the diverse employment of detective fictions internationally, and uncovers important political and historical subtexts of popular crime novels.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |14 pages

Introduction: Open Cases: Detection, (Post)Modernity, and the State

ByNels Pearson, Marc Singer

chapter 1|16 pages

Investigating Truth, History, and Human Rights in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost

chapter 2|16 pages

Postcolonial Noir: Vikram Chandra’s “Kama”

ByClaire Chambers

chapter 3|16 pages

Postcolonial Epistemologies: Transcending Boundaries and Re-inscribing Difference in The Calcutta Chromosome

chapter 4|18 pages

Detective Narrative Typology: Going Undercover in the French Caribbean

chapter 5|16 pages

Out on Parole: Suspending Oral Culture’s Death Sentence in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Solibo magnifique

chapter 6|18 pages

A Journey Lost in Mystery: Mario Vargas Llosa’s Death in the Andes

chapter 7|20 pages

The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw: Imperialist Policing, the Journalistic Novel, and the “War on Terror” in Colombia

chapter 8|22 pages

“Sympathetic Traveling”: Horizontal Ethics and Aesthetics in Paco Ignacio Taibo’s Belascoarán Shayne Novels

chapter 9|24 pages

Hot on the Heels of Transnational America: The Case of the Latina Detective

chapter 10|14 pages

Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress: The Reforming Spirit of Neo-Noir

chapter 11|14 pages

Lost in Translation: The Multicultural Interpreter as Metaphysical Detective in Suki Kim’s The Interpreter

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