The Routledge introduction to Canadian crime fiction / Pamela Bedore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bedore, Pamela, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery stories, Canadian--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories, Canadian.

Crime in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 273 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

"Who are the most important Canadian crime and detective writers? How do they help represent Canada as a nation? How do they distinguish Canada's approach to questions of crime, detection, and social justice from those of other countries? The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Crime Fiction provides a much-needed investigation into how crime and detection have been, are, and will be represented within Canada's national literature, with an attention to contemporary popular and literary texts. The book draws together a representative set of established Canadian authors who would appear in most courses on Canadian crime and detective fiction, while also introducing a few authors less established in the field. Ultimately, the book argues that crime fiction is a space of enormously productive hybridity that offers fresh new approaches to considering questions of national identity, gender, race, sexuality, and even genre"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Negotiations of national identity in Canadian crime fiction

John McFetridge and the legacy of French/English tensions

Giles Blunt and the Canadian North

Thomas King and the liminal Indigenous detective

Ausma Zehanat Khan and multiculturalism in Canada

Linwood Barclay and the American Dream

The police procedural: Registering change with Peter Robinson's DCI Banks

The amateur detective: Gail Bowen's Joanne Kilbourn as Canadian revisionist

The gay private eye: Anthony Bidulka's Russell Quant

The legal thriller: Trauma and resilience in Pamela Callow's Kate Lange

The postmodern detective: Literary detection in Timothy Findley and Carol Shields

Louise Penny's cozy exploration of trauma and temporality in the Anthropocene

Storytelling, guilt, and games in Margaret Atwood's postapocalyptic crime fiction

Interpretive mysteries and impossible crimes in Emily St. John Mandel's speculative fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Bedore, Pamela, 1972- Routledge introduction to Canadian crime fiction

ISBN:

9780367645731

0367645734

9780367645717

0367645718

OCLC:

1396142968