This collection of original essays is the first to evaluate multicultural detective fiction from a scholarly perspective. The contributors tackle such issues as postcolonialism, feminist theory, gay/lesbian perspectives, and ethnic and cultural confrontations as they show the range of frequencies on which multicultural mystery writing sounds, beyond simply escape and entertainment. This anthology began as a special session at the 1995 Modern Language Association conference.
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Gosselin has a genius for both talent-spotting and editing, and the essays she includes in Multicultural Detective Fiction refresh and extend one's understanding of the genre....This is a breakthrough collection in many respects, and it makes many excellent points.
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In the 1971 reissue of Rudolph Fisher's The Conjure-Man Dies (1932), the first detective novel set in an all-black environment, Stanley Ellin claims that Fisher's treatment invests the text "with qualities of a social document," so that the reader is "drawn through the book by its story, but emerges at last with much more than the story in mind" (Introduction). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
multicultural detective fiction, gay detective fiction, classical detective fiction, black modernist writers, detective fiction formula, dialogic angle, feminist detective novel, lesbian detective fiction, lesbian crime fiction, biological merger, detective formula, lesbian officer, little yellow dog, detective persona, clean darkness, apperceptive background, detective tradition, detective fiction genre, first detective novel, boiled tradition, series formulation, detective genre, formula fiction, potato kugel, female detective Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, African American, Native American, American Jewish, Chester Himes, Henry Rios, Red Hawk, The Sharpest Sight, Mean Spirit, The Conjure-Man Dies, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, The Little Death, Hugh Paris, Sweet William, United States, Virginia Kelly, The Ritual Bath, Walter Mosley, New Mexico, Rabbi Schulman, Sara Paretsky, Michael Horse, Red Death, Rudolph Fisher New!
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In the 1971 reissue of Rudolph Fisher's The Conjure-Man Dies (1932), the first detective novel set in an all-black environment, Stanley Ellin claims that Fisher's treatment invests the text "with qualities of a social document," so that the reader is "drawn through the book by its story, but emerges at last with much more than the story in mind" (Introduction). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
multicultural detective fiction, gay detective fiction, classical detective fiction, black modernist writers, detective fiction formula, dialogic angle, feminist detective novel, lesbian detective fiction, lesbian crime fiction, biological merger, detective formula, lesbian officer, little yellow dog, detective persona, clean darkness, apperceptive background, detective tradition, detective fiction genre, first detective novel, boiled tradition, series formulation, detective genre, formula fiction, potato kugel, female detective Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, African American, Native American, American Jewish, Chester Himes, Henry Rios, Red Hawk, The Sharpest Sight, Mean Spirit, The Conjure-Man Dies, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, The Little Death, Hugh Paris, Sweet William, United States, Virginia Kelly, The Ritual Bath, Walter Mosley, New Mexico, Rabbi Schulman, Sara Paretsky, Michael Horse, Red Death, Rudolph Fisher New!
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- Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan on 12 pages
- The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler on 10 pages
- Blanche on the Lam (Crime, Penguin) by Barbara Neely on 7 pages
- White Butterfly Pb by Walter Mosley on 6 pages
- The Blues Detective: A Study of African American Detective Fiction by Stephen F. Soitos on 5 pages
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- Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction by Maureen T. Reddy on 9 pages
- Inspecting Jews: American Jewish Detective Stories by Laurence Roth in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Postcolonial Postmortems (Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft S.) by Susanne Muhleisen (Editor) Christine Matzke (Editor) in Front Matter, page 257, and Back Matter
- Imagining the African American West (Race and Ethnicity in the American West) by Blake Allmendinger in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism by Rachel Stein on page 260, and page 261
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