Detective fiction in a postcolonial and transnational world

Detective fiction in a postcolonial and transnational world

by Pearson, Nels Singer, Marc

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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.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Detective fiction in a postcolonial and transnational world / edited by Nels Pearson and Marc Singer.

Summary

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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Ashgate
  • Place of Publication:Burlington, VT
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2009.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (ix, 214 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780754696421, 0754696421, 0754668487, 9780754668480
  • oclc:ocn646845962
  • LC Classification:PN3448.D4
  • Dewey Decimal:809.933556

Table of Contents

Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Open Cases: Detection, (Post) Modernity, and the State; 1 Investigating Truth, History, and Human Rights in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost; 2 Postcolonial Noir: Vikram Chandra's "Kama"; 3 Postcolonial Epistemologies: Transcending Boundaries and Re-inscribing Difference in The Calcutta Chromosome; 4 Detective Narrative Typology: Going Undercover in the French Caribbean; 5 Out on Parole: Suspending Oral Culture's Death Sentence in Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo magnifique; 6 A Journey Lost in Mystery: Mario Vargas Llosa's Death in the Andes.

7 The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw: Imperialist Policing, the Journalistic Novel, and the "War on Terror" in Colombia8 "Sympathetic Traveling": Horizontal Ethics and Aesthetics in PacoIgnacio Taibo's Belascoarán Shayne Novels; 9 Hot on the Heels of Transnational America: The Case of the Latina Detective; 10 Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress: The Reforming Spirit of Neo-Noir; 11 Lost in Translation: The Multicultural Interpreter as Metaphysical Detective in Suki Kim's The Interpreter; Index.

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Detective and mystery stories Detective and mystery stories -- Histor… Detective and mystery stories, American Detective and mystery stories, American… Detective and mystery stories, Caribbea… Detective and mystery stories, Caribbea… Detective and mystery stories, Commonwe… Detective and mystery stories, Commonwe… Detective and mystery stories, Latin Am… Detective and mystery stories, Latin Am… Electronic books

Writers

Pearson, Nels Singer, Marc

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