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We indulge our fascination with detection in many ways, only some of which occur in the detective story.In fact, modern fiction regularly uses elements of a detective narrative to tell another story altogether, to engage characters, narrators, and readers with questions of identity, with examinations of moral and ethical reasoning, with critiques of social and political injustices, and with the metaphysics of meaning itself. Detective plots cross cultural and national boundaries and occur in different ways and different genres. Taken together, they suggest important contemporary understandings of who and what we are, how and what we aspire to become. Detecting Detection gathers writing from the UK, North and South America, Europe, and Asia to draw together instances of the detective plot in contemporary fiction. It is unique not only in addressing the theme--a recurring one in modern literature--but in tracking the interest in detectives and detection across international borders.
Contents
Introduction; 1. Of Crows and Humans as Witnesses: The Detection Plot as a Means of Testimony; Heta Pyrhonen; 2. The Savage Detectives: A Detective Story?; Peter Baker; 3. Spanish Detective Fiction: The Intertexual Cultural Life of a Narrative; Ana-Maria Medina; 4. Criminal Accessories and Civil Rights: The Politics of Detection in A Confederacy of Dunces; Michelle Robinson; 5. There Is Something In Between: Detection, Duplicity, and Terrorism in The Quiet American by Graham Greene; Sofia Ahlberg; 6. The Stories We All Tell; Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis; 7. Zen Master Detectives or Yellowface Puppets: Clown Charlie, Morph Moto, and Judging Dee; Sheng-Mei Ma; 8. St. Paul, Plato, and the Detective Story; Kim Toft Hansen; 9. African Initiation Narratives and Elements of the Modern Detective Novel; Amadou Kone; Bibliography; Index.
