LEADER 05301nam 22006372 450 001 9910777871003321 005 20230828224840.0 010 $a94-012-0306-7 010 $a1-4294-5632-9 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401203067 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471103 035 $a(EBL)556777 035 $a(OCoLC)714567408 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000224855 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12029057 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224855 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10229893 035 $a(PQKB)10769159 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556777 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380476 035 $a(OCoLC)180989815 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401203067 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556777 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471103 100 $a20200716d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aPostcolonial Postmortems $eCrime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective /$fedited by Christine Matzke, Susanne Mühleisen 210 1$aLeiden; $aBoston :$cBRILL,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (346 p.) 225 1 $aInternationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;$v102 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2014-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgements -- Christine MATZKE and Susanne MÜHLEISEN: Postcolonial Postmortems: Issues and Perspectives -- Stephen KNIGHT: Crimes Domestic and Crimes Colonial: The Role of Crime Fiction in Developing Postcolonial Consciousness -- Wendy KNEPPER: Confession, Autopsy and the Postcolonial Postmortems of Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost -- Tobias DÖRING: Sherlock Holmes - He Dead: Disenchanting the English Detective in Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans -- Suchitra MATHUR: Holmes's Indian Reincarnation: A Study in Postcolonial Transposition -- Katja SARKOWSKY: Manga, Zen, and Samurai: Negotiating Exoticism and Orientalist Images in Sujata Massey's Rei Shimura Novels including an interview with Sujata Massey -- Vera ALEXANDER: Investigating the Motif of Crime as Transcultural Border Crossing: Cinnamon Gardens and The Sandglass -- Elfi BETTINGER: Riddles in the Sands of the Kalahari: Detectives at Work in Botswana -- Geoffrey V. DAVIS: Political Loyalties and the Intricacies of the Criminal Mind: The Detective Fiction of Wessel Ebersohn -- A.B. Christa SCHWARZ: Colonial Struggle on Manhattan Soil: George Schuyler's 'The Ethiopian Murder Mystery' -- Xavier PONS: 'Redneck Wonderland': Robert G. Barrett's Crime Fiction -- Patricia PLUMMER: Transcultural British Crime Fiction: Mike Phillips's Sam Dean Novels including an interview with Mike Phillips -- References -- Notes on contributors -- Name index -- Subject index. 330 $aRecent crime fiction increasingly transcends national boundaries, with investigators operating across countries and continents. Frequently, the detective is a migrant or comes from a transcultural background. To solve the crime, the investigator is called upon to decipher the meaning(s) hidden in clues and testimonies that require transcultural forms of understanding. For the reader, the investigation discloses new interpretive methods and processes of social investigation, often challenging facile interpretations of the postcolonial world order. Under the rubric 'postcolonial postmortems', this collection of essays seeks to explore the tropes, issues and themes that characterise this emergent form of crime fiction. But what does the 'postcolonial' bring to the genre apart from the well-known, and valid, discourses of resistance, subversion and ethnicity? And why 'postmortems'? A dissection and medical examination of a body to determine the cause of death, the 'postmortem' of the postcolonial not only alludes to the investigation of the victim's remains, but also to the body of the individual text and its contexts. This collection interrogates literary concepts of postcoloniality and crime from transcultural perspectives in the attempt to offer new critical impulses to the study of crime fiction and postcolonial literatures. International scholars offer insights into the 'postcolonial postmortems' of a wide range of texts by authors from Africa, South Asia, the Asian and African Diaspora, and Australia, including Robert G. Barrett, Unity Dow, Wessel Ebersohn, Romesh Gunesekera, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sujata Massey, Alexander McCall Smith and Michael Ondaatje. 410 0$aInternationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;$v102. 517 3 $aCrime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective 606 $aCrime in literature$xCross-cultural studies 606 $aDetective and mystery stories$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPostcolonialism in literature 615 0$aCrime in literature$xCross-cultural studies. 615 0$aDetective and mystery stories$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPostcolonialism in literature. 676 $a823 702 $aMatzke$b Christine 702 $aMühleisen$b Susanne 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777871003321 996 $aPostcolonial Postmortems$93745589 997 $aUNINA