Postcolonial Postmortems : Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective / / edited by Christine Matzke, Susanne Mühleisen |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (346 p.) |
Disciplina | 823 |
Collana | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft |
Soggetto topico |
Crime in literature - Cross-cultural studies
Detective and mystery stories - History and criticism Postcolonialism in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
94-012-0306-7
1-4294-5632-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgements -- 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. |
Altri titoli varianti | Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451473203321 |
Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Postcolonial Postmortems : Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective / / edited by Christine Matzke, Susanne Mühleisen |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (346 p.) |
Disciplina | 823 |
Collana | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft |
Soggetto topico |
Crime in literature - Cross-cultural studies
Detective and mystery stories - History and criticism Postcolonialism in literature |
ISBN |
94-012-0306-7
1-4294-5632-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgements -- 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. |
Altri titoli varianti | Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777871003321 |
Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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