{"product_id":"the-postcolonial-detective-hardcover","title":"The Postcolonial Detective - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eE. Christian\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eED CHRISTIAN is an Assistant Professor of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. He has been teaching detective fiction for a decade, featuring post-colonial detectives whenever possible. He has written or spoken on the detective writers Dorothy L. Sayers, Chester Himes, and Ellis Peters, among many others, and published the book\u003cem\u003e Joyce Cary's Creative Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e. Outside his native country, he has taught English to graduate students in Beijing, served as a surgical supervisor of a hospital in Rwanda, and been a Fullbright Scholar at Oxford. In addition to teaching detective fiction, he teaches three popular courses in biblical literature and another in apocalyptic fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 209\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 24, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45837552648389,"sku":"9780333738955","price":178.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/c884ki6PPV9780333738955.webp?v=1771281576","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-postcolonial-detective-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}