Traces detective fiction's history both as a literary form and a mode of critical exploration of the fraught sovereignties of the African state and its citizens.
Traces detective fiction's history both as a literary form and a mode of critical exploration of the fraught sovereignties of the African state and its citizens.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
MATTHEW J. CHRISTENSEN is Professor, Department of Literatures and Cultural Studies, University of Texas. He is the author of Rebellious Histories: The Amistad Slave Revolt and the Cultures of Late Twentieth-Century Black Transnationalism (2012) and editor of Staging the Amistad: Three Sierra Leonean Plays (2019).
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Africanizing Detective Fiction's Un/Sovereign Subjects 1. Dispossession, Rescue, and the Sovereign Self in the Colonial-Era Detective Story 2. Sovereign States: Police Investigators, Secret Agents, and Sleuthing Citizens after Independence 3. Decolonization Arrested Part 2: Neoliberal Noir 4. Neoliberal Noir 5. Seriality, Stasis, and the Neoliberal State 6. Managed Risk and the Deadly Allure of Transparency Conclusion: Detective Fiction and the Future Imperfect An Anglophone African Detective Fiction Bibliography, 1940-2023 Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Africanizing Detective Fiction's Un/Sovereign Subjects 1. Dispossession, Rescue, and the Sovereign Self in the Colonial-Era Detective Story 2. Sovereign States: Police Investigators, Secret Agents, and Sleuthing Citizens after Independence 3. Decolonization Arrested Part 2: Neoliberal Noir 4. Neoliberal Noir 5. Seriality, Stasis, and the Neoliberal State 6. Managed Risk and the Deadly Allure of Transparency Conclusion: Detective Fiction and the Future Imperfect An Anglophone African Detective Fiction Bibliography, 1940-2023 Bibliography Index
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