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Sleuthing ethnicity : the detective in multiethnic crime fiction / edited by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and Monika Mueller.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Fischer-Hornung, Dorothea, 1949-
Mueller, Monika, 1960-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, American.
American fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.
American fiction.
American fiction--Minority authors.
Detective and mystery stories--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Crime in literature.
Physical Description:
331 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2003]
Contents:
Part I Historicizing Ethnicity
Insider Knowledge versus Outsider Perspective in Early Italian American and African American Detective Stories / Marina Cacioppo 23
Samurai Sleuths and Detective Daughters: The American Way / Theo D'haen 36
Of Sherlocks, Shylocks, and the Shoah: Ethnicity in Jewish American Detective Fiction / Carmen Birkle 53
Marketing Mystical Mysteries: Rudolfo Anaya's Mystery Trilogy / Ann-Catherine Geuder 81
Part II Comparing Ethnic Identities
Detectives, Hoodoo, and Brujeria: Subverting the Dominant U.S. Cultural Ethos / Carmen Flys-Junquera 97
A Cuban American "Lady Dick" and an African American Miss Marple?: The Female Detective in the Novels of Carolina Garcia-Aguilera and Barbara Neely / Monika Mueller 114
Investigating Newark, New Jersey: Empowering Spaces in Valerie Wilson Wesley's Detective Fiction / Carmen Birkle 133
From Roots to Routes: Sleuthing Identity in Two Juvenile Ethnic Detective Novels / Sabine Steinisch 148
"A Great Space Where Sex Should Be," or "Who's the Black Private Dick Who's Not a Sex Machine to All the Chicks?": Shaft (2000) / Stephanie Brown 164
The Mystery of Identity: The Private Eye (I) in the Detective Fiction of Walter Mosley and Tony Hillerman / Alison D. Goeller 175
Detecting from the Borderlands: Aimee and David Thurlo's Ella Clah Novels / Katrin Fischer 187
"Crime Spirit": The Significance of Dreams and Ghosts in Three Contemporary Native American Crime Novels / Esther Fritsch, Marion Gymnich 204
Part III Globalizing Ethnicity
"Here's tae Us, Wha's Like Us": Val McDermid's Lindsay Gordon Mysteries / Samantha Hume 227
The Hard-Boiled Pattern as Discursive Practice of Ethnic Subalternity in Jakob Arjourni's Happy Birthday, Turk! and Irene Dische's Ein Job / Konstanze Kutzbach 240
Frenchness and Arab Alterity in Jean-Christophe Grange's Blood-Red Rivers / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung 260
Uncovering Collective Crimes: Sally Morgan's My Place as Australian Indigenous Detective Narrative / Russell West 280
Part IV Interviews
An Interview with Barbara Neely / Alison D. Goeller 299
An Interview with Valerie Wilson Wesley / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Monika Mueller 308.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0838639798
OCLC:
51886287

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