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OverviewCrime Fiction in the Caribbean: Reframing Crime and Justice is the first academic book to focus on crime fiction by anglophone Caribbean writers. It explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to convey, contextualize, and comment on crime and justice in Caribbean countries. Lucy Evans reads crime fiction as a versatile mode of writing that can be politically engaged, and that-in a Caribbean context-can expose power structures embedded in the region's multi-layered history of colonial conquest, genocide of Indigenous populations, plantation agriculture, transatlantic slavery, and indentured labour. This book covers fiction set in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, and Haiti, discussing novels by Elizabeth Nunez, Jacob Ross, Marlon James, Harischandra Khemraj, Esther Figueroa, Edwidge Danticat, Cherie Jones, and several others. Evans considers how fiction by anglophone Caribbean writers not only reflects upon the social realities of crime and crime control in the Caribbean, but also at times contests or complicates scholarly, popular, and legal perspectives. She argues that through their engagement with the crime genre, these writers raise pressing questions about what constitutes crime and justice in a Caribbean context, and about accountability. Looking beyond the traditional focus of crime fiction and criminology on individual acts of wrongdoing, their fiction highlights systemic social harms rooted in the region's colonial past. Reading crime fiction through the lens of criminological research, Crime Fiction in the Caribbean brings the study of literary writing into scholarly debate on crime in the Caribbean. At the same time, it extends the global turn in crime fiction studies, focusing on a region that has been sidelined even in studies which examine the genre's international dimensions. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lucy Evans (Associate Professor in Postcolonial Literature, Associate Professor in Postcolonial Literature, University of Leicester)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780198919889ISBN 10: 0198919883 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 10 October 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: To order  Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: The crimes of colonialism and the detective story: Agatha Christie's A Caribbean Mystery and Elizabeth Nunez' Prospero's Daughter 2: Policing and the police procedural: Robert Thorogood's Death in Paradise, Paula Lennon's Raythan Preddy Trilogy and Jacob Ross's Camaho Quartet 3: Organized crime, gangs, and gangster fiction: Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings and Desmond Hall's Your Corner Dark 4: White collar crime and the political thriller: David Hare's Turks & Caicos, D. N. Wong Ken's The Runnings, and Harischandra Khemraj's Cosmic Dance 5: Environmental crime and eco-noir: Esther Figueroa's Limbo and Edwidge Danticat's Claire of the Sea Light 6: (Post)colonial intimacies and domestic noir: Elizabeth Nunez' Bruised Hibiscus and Cherie Jones' How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House Conclusion BibliographyReviewsAuthor InformationLucy Evans is Associate Professor in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leicester specializing in Caribbean literature. Her current research focuses on crime fiction, and she is also working with Caribbean-based researchers and NGOs to develop creative methods for preventing gender-based violence. She is the author of Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories (2014) and co-editor, with Emma Smith and Mark Mcwatt, of The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives (2011). With Shivanee Ramlochan, she is co-editing Unstitching Silence: Fiction and Poetry by Caribbean Writers on Gender-Based Violence (2024). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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