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Recent crime fiction increasingly transcends national boundaries, with investigators operating across countries and continents. Frequently, the detective is a migrant or comes from a transcultural background. To solve the crime, the investigator is called upon to decipher the meaning(s) hidden in clues and testimonies that require transcultural forms of understanding. For the reader, the investigation discloses new interpretive methods and processes of social investigation, often challenging facile interpretations of the postcolonial world order. Under the rubric 'postcolonial postmortems', this collection of essays seeks to explore the tropes, issues and themes that characterise this emergent form of crime fiction. But what does the 'postcolonial' bring to the genre apart from the well-known, and valid, discourses of resistance, subversion and ethnicity? And why 'postmortems'? A dissection and medical examination of a body to determine the cause of death, the 'postmortem' of the postcolonial not only alludes to the investigation of the victim's remains, but also to the body of the individual text and its contexts. This collection interrogates literary concepts of postcoloniality and crime from transcultural perspectives in the attempt to offer new critical impulses to the study of crime fiction and postcolonial literatures. International scholars offer insights into the 'postcolonial postmortems' of a wide range of texts by authors from Africa, South Asia, the Asian and African Diaspora, and Australia, including Robert G. Barrett, Unity Dow, Wessel Ebersohn, Romesh Gunesekera, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sujata Massey, Alexander McCall Smith and Michael Ondaatje.

Sociology of literature --- Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Littérature post-coloniale --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Littératures postcoloniales --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Postcolonialité littéraire --- Postkolonialisme in de literatuur --- Poésie postcoloniale --- Roman postcolonial --- Théâtre postcolonial --- Crime in literature --- Cross-cultural studies --- Detective and mystery stories --- History and criticism --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Cross-cultural studies. --- History and criticism.

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Colonies dans la littérature --- Colonies in literature --- Koloniale literatuur --- Kolonies in de literatuur --- Littérature coloniale --- Littérature post-coloniale --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Littératures postcoloniales --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Postcolonialité littéraire --- Postkoloniale literatuur --- Postkolonialisme in de literatuur --- Poésie postcoloniale --- Roman postcolonial --- Théâtre postcolonial --- Dutch literature --- Colonies in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Dutch literature - 20th century - History and criticism. --- COLONIES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- LITTERATURE ANTILLAISE DE LANGUE NEERLANDAISE --- LITTERATURE INDONESIENNE DE LANGUE NEERLANDAISE --- LITTERATURE AFRIKAANS --- Postcolonialisme --- PAYS-BAS --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- Dans la littérature --- COLONIES --- Colonies --- Colonies néerlandaises

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Postmodernism Literature and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form. An opening section engages with the broad question of how the geographical and political positioning of experimental writing informs its contribution to racial discourses, while later segments focus on central critical domains within this field: race and performativity, race and the contemporary nation, and postracial futures. With essays on a wide range of contemporary writers, including Bernadine Evaristo, Alasdair Gray, Jhumpa Lahiri, Andrea Levy, and Don DeLillo, this volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics and aesthetics of contemporary writing.

Littérature post-coloniale --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Littératures postcoloniales --- Post-modernisme (Littérature) --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Postcolonialité littéraire --- Postkolonialisme in de literatuur --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Postmodernisme (Literatuur) --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- Poésie postcoloniale --- Race dans la littérature --- Race in literature --- Ras in de literatuur --- Roman postcolonial --- Théâtre postcolonial --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- Postcolonialisme --- Race --- Anthologies --- Dans la littérature --- Reed, Ishmael --- Criticism and interpretation --- O'Connor, Flannery Mary --- Major, Clarence --- Mailer, Norman --- Foer, Jonathan Safran --- DeLillo, Don --- Wallace, David Foster --- Anthologies. --- Postmodernisme et littérature. --- Dans la littérature. --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- E-books --- Race in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature.

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American literature --- Cultural pluralism in literature. --- Cultural pluralism --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Minorities --- Postcolonialism --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life --- Ethnic groups in literature --- Ethnicity in literature --- Ethnicité dans la littérature --- Ethnische groepen in de literatuur --- Etnisch bewustzijn in de literatuur --- Groupes ethniques dans la littérature --- Littérature post-coloniale --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Littératures postcoloniales --- Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature --- Pluralisme (Sociale wetenschappen) in de literatuur --- Pluralisme (sciences sociales) dans la littérature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Postcolonialité littéraire --- Postkolonialisme in de literatuur --- Poésie postcoloniale --- Roman postcolonial --- Théâtre postcolonial --- Cultural pluralism in literature --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Minority authors&delete& --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- United States --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Intellectual life.