Race and religion in the postcolonial British detective story : ten essays
"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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 244 pages ; 23 cm
9780786421756, 0786421754
58985674
Those other villagers : policing Englishness in Caroline Graham's The killings at Badger's Drift / Neil McCaw
A nice point of blood : race and religion in Rumpole's return / Brad Buchanan
Relocating the heart of darkness in Ruth Rendell / Suzanne Penuel
Detecting empire from inside-out and outside-in : the politics of detection in the fiction of Elizabeth George and Lucha Corpi / Tim Libretti
Deliver us to evil : religion as abject other in Elizabeth George's A great deliverance / Kate Koppelman
Missing persons and multicultural identity : the case of Phillip Kerr's Berlin noir / John Scaggs
"At the threshold of eternity" : religious inversion in Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor / Andrew Hock-soon Ng
Ian Rankin and the god of Scots / Brian Diemert
Gender and ethnic otherness in selected novels by Ann Granger, Cath Stainclife and Alma Fritchley / Marta Vizcaya Echano
Putting the "black" into "tartan noir" / Peter Clandfield