Christine Matzke and Susanne Mühleisen, eds., Postcolonial Postmortems: Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective
The first thing to be said about this book is that its subtitle is a little misleading in its unspecified expansiveness; in fact, only English-language fiction features in this volume. Second, the generic expectations raised by the use of “crime fiction” are only partially satisfied, as, next to di...
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| Sprog: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | The first thing to be said about this book is that its subtitle is a little misleading in its unspecified expansiveness; in fact, only English-language fiction features in this volume. Second, the generic expectations raised by the use of “crime fiction” are only partially satisfied, as, next to discussions of a number of works that indeed fit the popular formula marker usually associated with the genre, the volume also includes essays on such decidedly non-formula works by Michael Ondaatje,... |
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