Multicultural Detective Fiction
Subtitle: Murder from the Other Side (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780815331537
Subjects: Multicultural studies; Novels, other prose & writers; Mystery And Suspense Fiction; Group identity in literature; Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature; Ethnic American Literatures; Literature - Classics / Criticism; North & Central American indigenous languages; Literary Criticism; North America; History and criticism; Mystery & Detective - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Pluralism (Social sciences) in; American - African American & Black; African Americans in literatur; African Americans in literature; Detective and mystery stories,; Detective and mystery stories, American
First sentence: In the 1971 reissue of Rudolph Fisher's The Conjure-Man Dies (1932), the first detective novel set in an all-black environment, Stanley Ellin claims that Fisher's treatment invests the text "with qualities of a social document," so that the reader is "drawn through the book by its story, but emerges at last with much more than the story in mind" (Introduction).