UID:
almahu_9949708264502882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages)
ISBN:
9781003125242
,
1003125247
,
9781003852551
,
1003852556
,
9781003852612
,
1003852610
Content:
"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"--
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Bedore, Pamela, 1972- Routledge introduction to Canadian crime fiction New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9780367645731
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003125242
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003125242
