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Sleuthing ethnicity : the detective in multiethnic crime fiction
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- Creator
- edited by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and Monika Mueller
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Associated University Presses, ©2003
- Physical Details
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- 331 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0838639798, 9780838639795
- OCLC
- ocm51886287
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Also issued online.
- Introduction / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Monika Mueller -- Insider knowledge versus outsider perspective in early Italian American and African American detective stories / Marina Cacioppo -- Samurai sleuths and detective daughters : the American way / Theo D'Haen -- Of Sherlocks, shylocks, and the shoah : ethnicity in Jewish American detective fiction / Carmen Birkle -- Marketing mystical mysteries : Rudolfo Anaya's mystery trilogy / Ann-Catherine Geuder -- Detectives, hoodoo, and brujeria : subverting the dominant U.S. cultural ethos / Carmen Flys-Junquera
- Cuban American "Lady Dick" and an African American Miss Marple? : the female detective in the novels of Carolina Garcia-Aguilera and Barbara Neely / Monika Mueller -- Investigating Newark, New Jersey : empowering spaces in Valerie Wilson Wesley's detective fiction / Carmen Birkle -- From roots to routes : sleuthing identity in two juvenile ethnic detective novels / Sabine Steinisch -- "A great space where sex should be," or "who's the black private dick who's not a sex machine to all the chicks?" : Shaft (2000) / Stephanie Brown
- Mystery of identity : the private eye (I) in the detective fiction of Walter Mosley and Tony Hillerman / Alison D. Goeller -- Detecting from the borderlands : Aimee and David Thurlo's Ella Clah novels / Katrin Fischer -- "Crime spirit" : the significance of dreams and ghosts in three contemporary Native American crime novels / Esther Fritsch, Marion Gymnich -- "Here's tae us, wha's like us" : Val McDermid's Lindsay Gordon mysteries / Samantha Hume
- Hard-boiled pattern as discursive practice of ethnic subalternity in Jakob Arjourni's Happy Birthday, Turk! and Irene Dische's Ein Job / Konstanze Kutzbach -- Frenchness and Arab alterity in Jean-Christophe Grange's Blood-Red Rivers / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung -- Uncovering collective crimes : Sally Morgan's My Place as Australian indigenous detective narrative / Russell West -- Interview with Barbara Neely / Alison D. Goeller -- Interview with Valerie Wilson Wesley / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Monika Mueller