Return to the Scene of the Crime - The Returnee Detective and Postcolonial Crime Fiction

This book illustrates how five authors defy generic expectations to illustrate the complexities of personal identity, transitional justice, and civil violence in the post-colonial world.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 A Case of Arrested Development: Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans
2 Investigating the Pathologist: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost
3 Death of an Idea: Francisco Goldman's The Long Night of White Chickens
4 A Foreign Country: Gillian Slovo's Red Dust
5 Hijacked Narrative: Nuruddin Farah's Crossbones
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index

About the author

Kamil Naicker is lecturer in English Literature at the University of the Western Cape. She holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town and an MA from the University of Leeds. Return to the Scene of the Crime is her debut.

Product details

• Authors: Kamil Naicker
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032633794
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3263379-4
• No. of pages: 188
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Anthologies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Anthologies (non-poetry), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity