The Postcolonial Detective

What happens to detective fiction when the detective is 'post-colonial', a marginalized native or settler in a country recovering from colonialism? Post-colonial detection is an exciting hybrid of western-influenced police methods and plot conventions and indigenous cultural insights and wisdom in exotic settings. An introduction to the peculiarities of the post-colonial detective and to post-colonial theory establishes a context in which to view more than a dozen notable detectives and authors from around the world.

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ED CHRISTIAN is an Assistant Professor of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. He has been teaching detective fiction for a decade, featuring post-colonial detectives whenever possible. He has written or spoken on the detective writers Dorothy L. Sayers, Chester Himes, and Ellis Peters, among many others, and published the book Joyce Cary's Creative Imagination. Outside his native country, he has taught English to graduate students in Beijing, served as a surgical supervisor of a hospital in Rwanda, and been a Fullbright Scholar at Oxford. In addition to teaching detective fiction, he teaches three popular courses in biblical literature and another in apocalyptic fiction.

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Notes on the Contributors Introducing the Post-Colonial Detective: Putting Marginality to Work; E.Christian Keating's Inspector Ghote: Post-Colonial Detective? M.Tamaya James McClure's Mickey Zondi: The Partner of Apartheid; E.Tomarken Upfield's Napoleon Bonaparte: Post-Colonial Detective Prototype as Cultural Mediator; M.Rye A Crane among Chickens: the Search for Place in William Marshall's Yellowthread Street Novels; D.Bosi The Savage among Us: the Post-Colonial Detective in William Marshall's Manila Bay Novels; D.Loganbill Post-Colonial Problems in the Canadian Detective Novels of Eric Wright and Howard Engel; P.Quinn The Post-Colonial Detective in People's China; J.C.Kinkley The Traditional Hero as Modern Detective: Huo Sang in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai; K.F.Tam Paco Ignacio Taibo II: Post-Colonialism and the Detective Story in Mexico; J.H.Martin The Spanish Detective as Cultural Other; J.F.Colmeiro Driss ChraIbi's A Place in the Sun : The King, the Detective, the Banker, and Casablanca; R.Célestin Index