Evans Lucy (Associate Professor In Postcolonial Literature Associate Professor In Postcolonial Literature University Of Leicester)
Evans Lucy (Associate Professor In Postcolonial Literature Associate Professor In Postcolonial Literature University Of Leicester) - Crime Fiction In The Caribbean Reframing Crime And Justice - Hardcover
Evans Lucy (Associate Professor In Postcolonial Literature Associate Professor In Postcolonial Literature University Of Leicester) - Crime Fiction In The Caribbean Reframing Crime And Justice - Hardcover
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Description: Crime Fiction in the Caribbean: Reframing Crime and Justice is the first academic book to focus on crime fiction by anglophone Caribbean writers. It explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to convey contextualize and comment on crime and justice in Caribbean countries. Lucy Evans reads crime fiction as a versatile mode of writing that can be politically engaged and that - in a Caribbean context - can expose power structures embedded in the region's multi - layered history of colonial conquest genocide of Indigenous populations plantation agriculture transatlantic slavery and indentured labour. This book covers fiction set in Trinidad and Tobago Jamaica Guyana Barbados Grenada and Haiti discussing novels by Elizabeth Nunez Jacob Ross Marlon James Harischandra Khemraj Esther Figueroa Edwidge Danticat Cherie Jones and several others. Evans considers how fiction by anglophone Caribbean writers not only reflects upon the social realities of crime and crime control in the Caribbean but also at times contests or complicates scholarly popular and legal perspectives. She argues that through their engagement with the crime genre these writers raise pressing questions about what constitutes crime and justice in a Caribbean context and about accountability. Looking beyond the traditional focus of crime fiction and criminology on individual acts of wrongdoing their fiction highlights systemic social harms rooted in the region's colonial past. Reading crime fiction through the lens of criminological research Crime Fiction in the Caribbean brings the study of literary writing into scholarly debate on crime in the Caribbean. At the same time it extends the global turn in crime fiction studies focusing on a region that has been sidelined even in studies which examine the genre's international dimensions.
Title: Crime Fiction In The Caribbean Reframing Crime And Justice
Author(s): Evans Lucy (Associate Professor In Postcolonial Literature Associate Professor In Postcolonial Literature University Of Leicester)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198919889
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 3/31/2025
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
Description: Crime Fiction in the Caribbean: Reframing Crime and Justice is the first academic book to focus on crime fiction by anglophone Caribbean writers. It explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to convey contextualize and comment on crime and justice in Caribbean countries. Lucy Evans reads crime fiction as a versatile mode of writing that can be politically engaged and that - in a Caribbean context - can expose power structures embedded in the region's multi - layered history of colonial conquest genocide of Indigenous populations plantation agriculture transatlantic slavery and indentured labour. This book covers fiction set in Trinidad and Tobago Jamaica Guyana Barbados Grenada and Haiti discussing novels by Elizabeth Nunez Jacob Ross Marlon James Harischandra Khemraj Esther Figueroa Edwidge Danticat Cherie Jones and several others. Evans considers how fiction by anglophone Caribbean writers not only reflects upon the social realities of crime and crime control in the Caribbean but also at times contests or complicates scholarly popular and legal perspectives. She argues that through their engagement with the crime genre these writers raise pressing questions about what constitutes crime and justice in a Caribbean context and about accountability. Looking beyond the traditional focus of crime fiction and criminology on individual acts of wrongdoing their fiction highlights systemic social harms rooted in the region's colonial past. Reading crime fiction through the lens of criminological research Crime Fiction in the Caribbean brings the study of literary writing into scholarly debate on crime in the Caribbean. At the same time it extends the global turn in crime fiction studies focusing on a region that has been sidelined even in studies which examine the genre's international dimensions.
Title: Crime Fiction In The Caribbean Reframing Crime And Justice
Author(s): Evans Lucy (Associate Professor In Postcolonial Literature Associate Professor In Postcolonial Literature University Of Leicester)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198919889
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 3/31/2025
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
