Race and religion in the postcolonial British detective story
Subtitle: ten essays
By: edited by Julie H. Kim.
Contributors: Kim, Julie H.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.; Ethnic relations in literature.; Postcolonialism in literature.; Ethnic groups in literature.; Ethnicity in literature.; Religion in literature.; Race in literature.
Description: "The ten essays in this work examine the changing nature of British detective fiction. British detective writers are overwhelmingly white, and the essays here explore how these authors delve into ethnic diversity without the benefit of first-hand experience"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Those other villagers : policing Englishness in Caroline Graham's The killings at Badger's Drift / Neil McCaw; title: A nice point of blood : race and religion in Rumpole's return / Brad Buchanan; title: Relocating the heart of darkness in Ruth Rendell / Suzanne Penuel; title: Detecting empire from inside-out and outside-in : the politics of detection in the fiction of Elizabeth George and Lucha Corpi / Tim Libretti; title: Deliver us to evil : religion as abject other in Elizabeth George's A great deliverance / Kate Koppelman; title: Missing persons and multicultural identity : the case of Phillip Kerr's Berlin noir / John Scaggs; title: "At the threshold of eternity" : religious inversion in Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor / Andrew Hock-soon Ng; title: Ian Rankin and the god of Scots / Brian Diemert; title: Gender and ethnic otherness in selected novels by Ann Granger, Cath Stainclife and Alma Fritchley / Marta Vizcaya Echano; title: Putting the "black" into "tartan noir" / Peter Clandfield.