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Covering novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, and Haiti, Lucy Evans explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to raise pressing questions about what constitutes crime and justice in a Caribbean context, and about accountability.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 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 and 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
- Bibliography
About the author
Lucy Evans is Associate Professor in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leicester, UK. Her current research focuses on crime fiction and representations of crime in the Caribbean. She is also working with Caribbean-based researchers and creative practitioners to develop strategies for using spoken word poetry and theatre in gender-based violence prevention initiatives. She is the author of
Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories (Liverpool University Press, 2014), co-editor of
The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives (Peepal Tree Press, 2011), and co-editor of the journal special issue 'Representing Crime, Violence and Jamaica',
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 22:1 (2020).
Summary
Covering novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, and Haiti, Lucy Evans explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to raise pressing questions about what constitutes crime and justice in a Caribbean context, and about accountability.
