The Postcolonial Detective

What happens to detective fiction when the detective is 'post-colonial', a marginalized native or settler in a country recovering from colonialism? Post-colonial detection is an exciting hybrid of western-influenced police methods and plot conventions and indigenous cultural insights and wisdom in exotic settings. An introduction to the peculiarities of the post-colonial detective and to post-colonial theory establishes a context in which to view more than a dozen notable detectives and authors from around the world.

Notes on the Contributors Introducing the Post-Colonial Detective: Putting Marginality to Work; E. Christian Keating's Inspector Ghote: Post-Colonial Detective? M. Tamaya James McClure's Mickey Zondi: The Partner of Apartheid; E. Tomarken Upfield's Napoleon Bonaparte: Post-Colonial Detective Prototype as Cultural Mediator; M. Rye A Crane among Chickens: the Search for Place in William Marshall's Yellowthread Street Novels; D. Bosi The Savage among Us: the Post-Colonial Detective in William Marshall's Manila Bay Novels; D. Loganbill Post-Colonial Problems in the Canadian Detective Novels of Eric Wright and Howard Engel; P. Quinn The Post-Colonial Detective in People's China; J. C. Kinkley The Traditional Hero as Modern Detective: Huo Sang in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai; K. F. Tam Paco Ignacio Taibo II: Post-Colonialism and the Detective Story in Mexico; J. H. Martin The Spanish Detective as Cultural Other; J. F. Colmeiro Driss ChraIbi's A Place in the Sun : The King, the Detective, the Banker, and Casablanca; R. Célestin Index