Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World

Nels Pearson is Assistant Professor of English at Fairfield University, USa and Marc Singer is Assistant Professor of English at Howard University, USA

Contents: Introduction: open cases: detection, (post)modernity, and the state, Nels Pearson and Marc Singer; Investigating truth, history, and human rights in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost, Emily S. Davis; Postcolonial noir: Vikram Chandra's 'Kama,' Claire Chambers; Postcolonial epistemologies: transcending boundaries and re-inscribing difference in The Calcutta Chromosome, Maureen Lauder; Detective narrative typology: going undercover in the French Caribbean, Jason Herbeck; Out on parole: suspending oral culture's death sentence in Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnifique, Greg Wright; A journey lost in mystery: Mario Vargas Llosa's Death in the Andes, Haiqing Sun; The hunt for the world's greatest outlaw: imperialist policing, the journalistic novel, and the 'war on terror' in Colombia, Robin Truth Goodman; 'Sympathetic traveling': horizontal ethics and aesthetics in Paco Ignacio Taibo's Belascoaran Shayne novels, Jennifer Lewis; Hot on the heels of postcolonial America: the case of the Latina detective, Wendy Knepper; Walter Moseley's Devil in a Blue Dress: the reforming spirit of neo-noir, Raphaël Lambert; Lost in translation: the multicultural interpreter as metaphysical detective in Suki Kim's The Interpreter, Soo Yeon Kim; Index.