Sleuthing Ethnicity
Author | : Dorothea Fischer-Hornung |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780838639795 |
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Author | : Dorothea Fischer-Hornung |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780838639795 |
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Author | : Ato Quayson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107132819 |
This Companion provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys. Covering subjects from disability and diaspora to the sublime and the city, this Companion reveals the myriad traditions that have shaped the postcolonial literary landscape.
Author | : Julie H. Kim |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2014-04-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476615381 |
The crime fiction world of the late 1970s, with its increasingly diverse landscape, is a natural beginning for this collection of critical studies focusing on the intersections of class, culture and crime--each nuanced with shades of gender, ethnicity, race and politics. The ten new essays herein raise broad and complicated questions about the role of class and culture in transatlantic crime fiction beyond the Golden Age: How is "class" understood in detective fiction, other than as a socioeconomic marker? Can we distinguish between major British and American class concerns as they relate to crime? How politically informed is popular detective fiction in responding to economic crises in Scotland, Ireland, England and the United States? When issues of race and gender intersect with concerns of class and culture, does the crime writer privilege one or another factor? Do values and preoccupations of a primarily middle-class readership get reflected in popular detective fiction?
Author | : Julie H. Kim |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476640424 |
To read a crime novel today largely simulates the exercise of reading newspapers or watching the news. The speed and frequency with which today's bestselling works of crime fiction are produced allow them to mirror and dissect nearly contemporaneous socio-political events and conflicts. This collection examines this phenomenon and offers original, critical, essays on how national identity appears in international crime fiction in the age of populism and globalization. These essays address topics such as the array of competing nationalisms in Europe; Indian secularism versus Hindu communalism; the populist rhetoric tinged with misogyny or homophobia in the United States; racial, religious or ethnic others who are sidelined in political appeals to dominant native voices; and the increasing economic chasm between a rich and poor. More broadly, these essays inquire into themes such as how national identity and various conceptions of masculinity are woven together, how dominant native cultures interact with migrant and colonized cultures to explore insider/outsider paradigms and identity politics, and how generic and cultural boundaries are repeatedly crossed in postcolonial detective fiction.
Author | : Julie H. Kim |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0786490039 |
During the interwar "golden age" of British detective fiction, women writers like Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie reigned, but their work remains tame compared to today's crime novels. Elements of sexuality and gender, including soft porn and sexual psychopathy, pervade contemporary detective fiction. The 10 essays in this collection explore issues of gender and sexuality in crime writing by women from 1985 to 2011, surveying works about girl sleuths, parodies, hard-boiled detective fiction, police procedurals, and recent serial killer series. They examine the relationship between genre and gender and explore how later works enter into a field of "post-feminism." Most importantly, this volume demonstrates how popular women writers of the last three decades have reconceptualized what it means to be a female detective.
Author | : Thomas W. Kniesche |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2019-10-21 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 3110422255 |
A companion to contemporary German crime fiction for English-speaking audiences is overdue. Starting with the earlier Swiss “classics” Glauser and Dürrenmatt and including a number of important Austrian authors, such as Wolf Haas and Heinrich Steinfest, this volume will cover the essential writers, genres, and themes of crime fiction written in German. Where necessary and appropriate, crime fiction in media other than writing (TV-series, movies) will be included. Contemporary social and political developments, such as gender issues, life in a multicultural society, and the afterlife of German fascism today, play a crucial role in much of recent German crime fiction. A number of contributions to this volume will comment on the literary reflection of these issues in the texts. The goal of the volume is to make available to English-speaking audiences, to students, teachers and to a wider circle of interested readers, a series of articles on genres, topics, authors, and texts that will help them understand the scope and depth of German crime fiction, its ties to international traditions and also the specificity of the German context, its historical development and contemporary situation.
Author | : Elizabeth A. Blakesley |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2006-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0313049068 |
Mysteries are among the most popular books today, and women continue to be among the most creative and widely read mystery writers. This book includes alphabetically arranged entries on 90 women mystery writers. Many of the writers discussed were not even writing when the first edition of this book was published in 1994, while others have written numerous works since then. Writers were selected based on their status as award winners, their commercial success, and their critical acclaim. Each entry provides biographical information, a discussion of major works and themes, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with appendices and a selected, general bibliography. Public library patrons will value this guide to their favorite authors, while students will turn to it when writing reports.
Author | : Cynthia Baron |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1838715266 |
In this illuminating insight into Denzel Washington's multifaceted image and remarkable career, Cynthia Baron traces his star persona and impact on mainstream society – from his time as a skilled actor in theatre and television in the 1980s, to his leading man roles in landmark films of the 1990s, to his place in Hollywood's elite in the 2000s.
Author | : Julie H. Kim |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2005-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0786421754 |
In 1929, Ronald Knox, a prominent member of the English Detection Club, included in his tongue-in-cheek Ten Commandments for Detective Novelists the rule that "No Chinaman must figure in the story." In 1983, Ruth Rendell published Speaker of Mandarin, reflecting not only a change in British detective fiction but also a dramatic change in the British cultural landscape. Like much of the rest of British popular culture, the detective novel became more and more ethnically diverse and populated by characters with increasingly varied religious backgrounds. Ten essays examine the changing nature of British detective fiction, focusing on the shifting view of "otherness" of such authors as Ruth Rendell, Elizabeth George, Peter Ackroyd, Caroline Graham, Christopher Brookmyer, Denise Mina and John Mortimer. Unlike their American counterparts, British detective writers have been until recently, overwhelmingly white, and the essays here explore how these authors delve into ethnic diversity within a historically homogeneous culture. Religion has also played an important role in the genre, ranging from the moral certainty of the early part of the 20th century to the skepticism and hostility that is part of contemporary fiction. How this transition was made and how it reflects the changing nature of British culture are detailed here.
Author | : Eva Parra Membrives |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Literature |
ISBN | : 3823367080 |