The post-colonial detective
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The post-colonial detective
（Crime files）
Palgrave, 2001
- : in North America
- : outside North America
Available at 7 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: in North America ISBN 9780312228316
Description
What happens to detective fiction when the detective is "post-colonial," a marginalized native or settler in a country recovering from colonialism? This introduction to the peculiarities of the post-colonial detective and to post-colonial theory establishes a context in which to view more than a dozen notable detectives and authors from around the world. The essays present post-colonial detection as an exciting hybrid of western-influenced police methods and plot conventions with indigenous cultural insights and wisdom in exotic settings.
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: outside North America ISBN 9780333738955
Description
What happens to detective fiction when the detective is 'post-colonial', a marginalized native or settler in a country recovering from colonialism? Post-colonial detection is an exciting hybrid of western-influenced police methods and plot conventions and indigenous cultural insights and wisdom in exotic settings. An introduction to the peculiarities of the post-colonial detective and to post-colonial theory establishes a context in which to view more than a dozen notable detectives and authors from around the world.
Table of Contents
- Notes on the Contributors Introducing the Post-Colonial Detective: Putting Marginality to Work
- E.Christian Keating's Inspector Ghote: Post-Colonial Detective? M.Tamaya James McClure's Mickey Zondi: The Partner of Apartheid
- E.Tomarken Upfield's Napoleon Bonaparte: Post-Colonial Detective Prototype as Cultural Mediator
- M.Rye A Crane among Chickens: the Search for Place in William Marshall's Yellowthread Street Novels
- D.Bosi The Savage among Us: the Post-Colonial Detective in William Marshall's Manila Bay Novels
- D.Loganbill Post-Colonial Problems in the Canadian Detective Novels of Eric Wright and Howard Engel
- P.Quinn The Post-Colonial Detective in People's China
- J.C.Kinkley The Traditional Hero as Modern Detective: Huo Sang in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai
- K.F.Tam Paco Ignacio Taibo II: Post-Colonialism and the Detective Story in Mexico
- J.H.Martin The Spanish Detective as Cultural Other
- J.F.Colmeiro Driss ChraIbi's A Place in the Sun : The King, the Detective, the Banker, and Casablanca
- R.Celestin Index
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