Synopses & Reviews
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.
About the Author
Ed Christian is Assistant Professor of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.
Table of Contents
Introducing the Post-Colonial Detective--Ed Christian * Keating's Inspector Ghote--Mheera Tamaya * James McClure's Mickey Zondi--Edward Tomarken * Upfield's Napoleon Bonaparte--Marilyn Rye * A Crane among Chickens--Deborah Bosi * The Savage among Us--Dean Loganbill * Post-Colonial Problems in the Canadian Detective Novels of Eric Wright and Howard Engel--Patrick Quinn * The Post-Colonial Detective in People's China--Jeffrey C. Kinkley * The Traditional Hero as Modern Detective--King-Fai Tam * Paco Ignacio Taibo II--Jorge Hernàndez Martin * The Spanish Detective as Cultural Other--Jose F. Colmeiro * Driss Chraïbi's
A Place in the Sun --Roger Célestin