Postcolonial Postmortems Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft S Susanne Muhleisen 1st Edition by Christine Matzke ISBN 9042020148 978-9042020146
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ISBN 10: 9042020148
ISBN 13: 978-9042020146
Author: Christine Matzke
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’, this collection of essays seeks to explore the tropes, issues and themes that characterise this emergent form of crime fiction. But what does the ‘postcolonial’ bring to the genre apart from the well-known, and valid, discourses of resistance, subversion and ethnicity? And why ‘postmortems’? A dissection and medical examination of a body to determine the cause of death, the ‘postmortem’ of the postcolonial not only alludes to the investigation of the victim’s remains, but also to the body of the individual text and its contexts.
This collection interrogates literary concepts of postcoloniality and crime from transcultural perspectives in the attempt to offer new critical impulses to the study of crime fiction and postcolonial literatures. International scholars offer insights into the ‘postcolonial postmortems’ of a wide range of texts by authors from Africa, South Asia, the Asian and African Diaspora, and Australia, including Robert G. Barrett, Unity Dow, Wessel Ebersohn, Romesh Gunesekera, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sujata Massey, Alexander McCall Smith and Michael Ondaatje.
Table of contents:
1 CHRISTINE MATZKE AND SUSANNE MÜHLEISEN
Postcolonial Postmortems: Issues and Perspectives
2 STEPHEN KNIGHT
Crimes Domestic and Crimes Colonial: The Role of Crime Fiction in Developing Postcolonial Consciousness
3 WENDY KNEPPER
Confession, Autopsy and the Postcolonial Postmortems of Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost
4 TOBIAS DÖRING
Sherlock Holmes – He Dead: Disenchanting the English Detective in Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans
5 SUCHITRA MATHUR
Holmes’s Indian Reincarnation: A Study in Postcolonial Transposition
6 KATJA SARKOWSKY
Manga, Zen, and Samurai: Negotiating Exoticism and Orientalist Images in Sujata Massey’s Rei Shimura Novels
(including an interview with Sujata Massey)
7 VERA ALEXANDER
Investigating the Motif of Crime as Transcultural Border Crossing: Cinnamon Gardens and The Sandglass
8 ELFI BETTINGER
Riddles in the Sands of the Kalahari: Detectives at Work in Botswana
9 GEOFFREY V. DAVIS
Political Loyalties and the Intricacies of the Criminal Mind: The Detective Fiction of Wessel Ebersohn
10 A. B. CHRISTA SCHWARZ
Colonial Struggle on Manhattan Soil: George Schuyler’s The Ethiopian Murder Mystery
11 XAVIER PONS
Redneck Wonderland: Robert G. Barrett’s Crime Fiction
12 PATRICIA PLUMMER
Transcultural British Crime Fiction: Mike Phillips’s Sam Dean Novels
(including an interview with Mike Phillips)
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