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Mysteries and detective stories are among the most popular of books but the writers of such genre fiction suffer from a perception that their work is to be taken less seriously than so-called literary fiction. The novels of James Lee Burke, one of the most distinguished writers of crime novels, challenge that notion, as do the 12 essays in this collection.
This work examines Burke as a writer who has expanded the mystery-detective genre with an astonishing diversity of themes, imaginative language and descriptions, and unforgettable characters. He seems unbounded by limitations of genre.
An interview with Burke is included.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
LEONARD ENGEL
1. The Struggles of Southern Identity in White Doves at Morning
BRAD KLYPCHAK
2. "I Took No Joy in It": Southern Violence and Folk Justice in the Robicheaux Novels
PATRICIA GAITELY
3. Soldiering On: Dave Robicheaux and Vietnam
DONALD ANDERSON
4. "Jesus Out to Sea": Burke's Homage to Those Left Behind in the War Zone
BARBARA ZIMMERMAN BOGUE
5. Ghosts, Demons, or the DTs? The Supernatural in the Robicheaux Series
LINDA J. HOLLAND-TOLL
6. Believe Not Every Spirit: Strange Shadows in the Novels
BRETT WESTBROOK
7. Water, Water Everywhere: Elemental Poetics and Politics in The Tin Roof Blowdown
JOSIANE PELTIER
8. The Entangled Web: Heaven's Prisoners in Manichean Prisons
SAM COALE
9. The Past Is the Past: Refusing to Age Gracefully in the Robicheaux Series
THOMAS EASTERLING
10. The Evil That Men Do: Options for Masculinity
BRETT WESTBROOK
11. Cimarron Rose: Guns and Roses in the West
JOHN M. GOURLIE
12. Robicheaux's Sublime Torment on Film: Phil Joanou's Heaven's Prisoners (1996) and Bertrand Tavernier's In the Electric Mist (2009)
DENNIS ROTHERMEL
Interview with James Lee Burke
LEONARD ENGEL
About the Contributors
Index .
