Detective Fiction And The African Scene
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Detective Fiction And The African Scene
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Author : Linus Tongwo Asong
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2012
Detective Fiction And The African Scene written by Linus Tongwo Asong and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Criticism categories.
From its very inception, detective fiction has enjoyed a great popularity among the young and the old, the learned and the not so learned. By some unfortunate stroke of irony, its respect has not kept pace with its enormous popularity. For over half a century now, it has remained the bane of creative writing. In strict intellectual circles, it is very rare to find people talk defensively and interestingly about the genre. Yet Asong has chosen to do just that. He has stoutly defended the weak by putting up a good case for its continued existence. He has also shown how irresistible key elements of the genre are to even the best respected novelists. Finally he has demonstrated for the first time, how the genre has been domesticated by African writers of very great repute such as Ngugi, Sembene and Lessing. That he has been able to prove that these writers have used techniques of detective fiction is a significant broadening of the horizons for appreciating creative writing in Africa.
Detective Fiction And The African Scene
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Author : Asong Linus Tongwo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Detective Fiction And The African Scene written by Asong Linus Tongwo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with African fiction categories.
The purpose of this thesis is twofold: to examine strengths and weaknesses of commentaries which have proved decisive in establishing the present status of the genre of detective fiction; it is further to examine the influence of the genre on African fiction as exemplified in the works of four novelists -- Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of B1ood, Mongo Beti1s Perpetue et 1'habitude du malheur, Doris Lessing's The Grass is Singing, and Ousmane Sembene's Xala. Chapter I is mainly concerned with the state of the genre: the popular misconceptions of the readers, the origins of the errors that are often made in judging the literature, its inherent potentials and possibilities for the future. Chapter II deals principally with the examination of the elements of detective fiction techniques in the four novels, within the framework of structure and characterization. Chapter III is designed to establish the uniqueness of the four works -- how by combining social relevance and entertainment so successfully, and how by substituting the WHYDUNIT for the WHODUNIT, the novelists suggest one means by which the disreputable genre could be reinvigorated.
The Noir Atlantic
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Author : Pim Higginson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011
The Noir Atlantic written by Pim Higginson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Criticism categories.
With the publication in 1953 of his “Harlem Domestic” series, African American noir writer Chester Himes became a cult figure for a generation of Parisian readers—many of whom appreciated his work as much for the break it represented from the dominant colonial-era literary paradigm as for Himes's characteristic blend of violence and dark wit. The Noir Atlantic examines the crucial role played by Himes and others in the emergence of crime fiction across francophone Africa. Through careful textual analysis, Pim Higginson charts the emergence of African noir over the past two decades and redefines the key African and American authors in a broader global context.
Return To The Scene Of The Crime
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Author : Kamil Naicker
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-12-01
Return To The Scene Of The Crime written by Kamil Naicker and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
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. In tandem with solving the case, they must also grapple with the complexities of their origins. Kamil Naicker shows how five authors defy generic expectations to illustrate the complexities of personal identity, transitional justice, and civil violence in the post-colonial world. Congregating novels set in South Africa, China, Guatemala, Sri Lanka and Somalia, this book intervenes in literary studies by bringing the trend of the returnee figure and exploring the possibilities of world-making through the explosion of a familiar form. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.
Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940 2020
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Author : Matthew J. Christensen
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2024-03-19
Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940 2020 written by Matthew J. Christensen and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Providing a survey of Anglophone African detective fiction, from the late 1940s to the present day, this study traces its history both as a literary form and a mode of critical exploration of the fraught sovereignties of the African state and its citizens. Since the late 1940s, African writers including Cyprian Ekwensi, Arthur Maimane, Adaora Lily Ulasi, Hilary Ng'weno, Unity Dow, Parker Bilal, and Angela Makholwa have published over 200 murder mysteries, police procedurals, spy thrillers, and other fictional narratives of investigation and discovery in English-language newspapers, magazines, and novels. Distributed widely across the continent's diverse cultural and political geographies, these texts share aesthetic characteristics and thematic preoccupations that reflect transnational networks of production, circulation, and influence. Anglophone African Detective Fiction, 1940-2020 surveys this literary history and examines how African writers have repeatedly harnessed the detective story to interrogate postcolonial realities of selfhood and the state. It argues that African writers have turned the detective story into a highly productive, while at the same time suspense-filled and entertaining, mode of social and political critique, first of colonialism and the independence era and latterly of neoliberal governance. Offering an overview of paradigmatic texts, from Ghana to Kenya and Sudan to South Africa, the book traces the contours of the history of Anglophone African detective fiction that is at once a cultural history of a uniquely African assessment of the ongoing problematics of sovereignty and decolonization.
Mysteries Of Africa
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Author : Eugene Schleh
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1991
Mysteries Of Africa written by Eugene Schleh and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
"Using the highly popular genre of detective/mystery fiction, this volume explores the insights available in African centered stories. The sample of writings used ranges from the colonial era to the present and covers the work of both Africans and outside observers from Europe and North America".--BOOKJACKET.
Polar Noir Reading African American Detective Fiction
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Author : Claude Julien (dir.). Alice Mills
language : en
Publisher: Presses universitaires François-Rabelais
Release Date : 2017-06-20
Polar Noir Reading African American Detective Fiction written by Claude Julien (dir.). Alice Mills and has been published by Presses universitaires François-Rabelais this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Curiosity and the desire to grasp the specificity of an abundantly read African American genre born as the 20th century was beginning are the research intentions that inspire this volume. Indeed, only recently has African-American detective fiction drawn the attention of scholars in spite of its very diverse blossoming since the 1960s. Diverse, because it has moved out of its birth place, East coast cities, and because female novelists have contributed their own production. At the heart of this popular genre, as novelists BarbaraNeely, Paula Woods and Gar Haywood tell us, is black existence: black memory, black living places and the human environments that build the individual - hence a détour to the French Caribbean.
Scene Of The Crime
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Author : David Geherin
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-12-03
Scene Of The Crime written by David Geherin and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Offering analysis of the fiction of 15 authors for whom the setting greatly contributes to their overall literary style, this book focuses on the many ways that "place" figures in modern crime and mystery novels. The authors (and their settings) are: Georges Simenon (Paris), Donna Leon (Venice), Tony Hillerman (American Southwest), Walter Mosley (South Central Los Angeles), George P. Pelecanos (Washington, D.C.), Sara Paretsky (Chicago), James Lee Burke (Southern Louisiana), Carl Hiaasen (South Florida), Ian Rankin (Edinburgh), Alexander McCall Smith (Botswana), James McClure (South Africa), Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo (Stockholm), Paco Ignacio Taibo II (Mexico City), Leonardo Sciascia (Sicily) and Lindsey Davis (Ancient Rome).
Women And Crime In Post Transitional South African Crime Fiction
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Author : Sabine Binder
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-11-16
Women And Crime In Post Transitional South African Crime Fiction written by Sabine Binder and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this ground-breaking study, Sabine Binder analyses the complex ways in which female crime fictional victims, detectives and perpetrators in South African crime fiction resonate with widespread and persistent real crimes against women in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of crime novels written over the last decade, Binder emphasises the genre’s feminist potential and critically maps its political work at the intersection of gender and race. Her study challenges the perception of crime fiction as a trivial genre and shows how, in South Africa at least, it provides a vibrant platform for social, cultural and ethical debates, exposing violence, misogyny and racism and shedding light on the problematics of law and justice for women faced with crime.
Routledge Handbook Of African Literature
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Author : Moradewun Adejunmobi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-13
Routledge Handbook Of African Literature written by Moradewun Adejunmobi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an expansion of critical approaches to African literature. The Routledge Handbook of African Literature is a one-stop publication bringing together studies of African literary texts that embody an array of newer approaches applied to a wide range of works. This includes frameworks derived from food studies, utopian studies, network theory, eco-criticism, and examinations of the human/animal interface alongside more familiar discussions of postcolonial politics. Every chapter is an original research essay written by a broad spectrum of scholars with expertise in the subject, providing an application of the most recent insights into analysis of particular topics or application of particular critical frameworks to one or more African literary works. The handbook will be a valuable interdisciplinary resource for scholars and students of African literature, African culture, postcolonial literature and literary analysis. Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138713864_oachapter4.pdf