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Criminal Proceedings: The Contemporary American Crime Novel

Criminal Proceedings: The Contemporary American Crime Novel


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The 1990s have seen significant and radical additions to American crime fiction, as the genre has mutated from Chandleresque traditions to a postmodernist fiction, marked especially by the collapse of the "safe" and distinct categories of criminal, detective and reader. This volume takes this collapse as a starting point and looks at how detective fiction in the US now operates from many different cultural and regional perspectives. The contributors examine the proliferation of subgenres, such as police and court procedures, and consider how this kind of writing taps into contemporary concerns on question of race, justice, oppression and gender.



Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: From Private Eye to Police Procedural – The Logic of Contemporary Crime Fiction by Peter Messent
2. Criminal Suits: Style and Surveillance, Strategy and Tactics in Elmore Leonard by Barry Taylor
3. Black Noir: Race and Urban Space in Walter Mosley's Detective Fiction by Liam Kennedy
4. V. I. Warshawski, Kinsey Millhone and Kay Scarpetta: The Creation of a Feminist Detective Hero by Sabine Vanacker
5. The Lesbian Thriller: Transgressive Investigations by Paulina Palmer
6. Policing the Margins: Barbara Wilson's Gaudi Afternoon and Troubles in Transylvania by Christopher Gair
7. Reading the Signs: Detection and Anthropology in the Work of Tony Hillerman by David Murray
8. The Last Good Place; James Crumley, the West and the Detective Novel by John Harvey
9. James Ellroy, Los Angeles and the Spectacular Crisis of Masculinity by Josh Cohen
10. Law Crimes: The Legal Fictions of John Grisham and Scott Turow by Nick Heffernan
11. Watching the Detectives: Body Images, Sexual Politics and Ideology in Contemporary Crime Film by Brian Jarvis
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Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

About the Author :
Peter Messent is Reader in the Modern American Novel at the University of Nottingham and has written widely on contemporary American fiction.

Review :
'A wonderfully perverse book' 'The collection assembles a wide variety of both types of lawman and law-woman, including racist, misogynistic cops, Navajo police (one with traditional religious interests), feminists PIs, and Western detectives – along with assorted lawyers and FBI agents... What does unite the contributors, apart from their ability to write accessible yet sophisticated prose, is their professionalism' 'This welcome collection of essays will be of use to almost anyone interested in the field and its contemporary state'


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780745310169
  • Publisher: Pluto Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press
  • Height: 215 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Weight: 340 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0745310168
  • Publisher Date: 20 Mar 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Contemporary American Crime Novel
  • Width: 135 mm


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