1st Edition
Return to the Scene of the Crime The Returnee Detective and Postcolonial Crime Fiction
By Kamil Naicker
Copyright 2024
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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A crime novel, at once disturbing and perversely comforting, factually has been known to curtail social anxieties through the ‘open and shut case’ of its narrative form. But what happens to that form in a world where guilt and innocence are not easily assigned?
Return to the Scene of the Crime takes place on the trope of an investigator returning to the post-colony on a quest for knowledge.... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 A Case of Arrested Development: Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans
2 Investigating the Pathologist: Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost
3 Death of an Idea: Francisco Goldman’s The Long Night of White Chickens
4 A Foreign Country: Gillian Slovo’s Red Dust
5 Hijacked Narrative: Nuruddin Farah’s Crossbones
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index
Biography
Kamil Naicker is lecturer in English Literature at the University of the Western Cape. She holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town and an MA from the University of Leeds. Return to the Scene of the Crime is her debut.
